- From: Sergio Abreu <dosergio@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:04:16 -0300
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4AD9CEE0.1060606@gmail.com>
Hello Everybody I am Sergio Abreu, Brazilian programmer, and a Web lover. I was upgrading one amazing tool that I created (the Javascript Self Explorer) and I had one insight: I was editing these two lines (for instance): <a href="mywebsite.jsp">mywebsite.jsp</a> and <a href="mailto:myemail@myprovider">myemail@myprovider</a> Could you recognize a pattern in these two examples above ? Why to repeat the same things in href and innerHTML? It is redundance and I think it could be easier and faster to code if HTML Specification had these two new tags (you can decide among: web, link, mail and email). So, I decide to test these two personalized XML tags: <web>mywebsite.jsp</web> (could be <link> as well) and <mail>myemail@myprovider</mail> (could be <email> as well) When the page loads all web and email elements content are automatically transformed in links. Up to now, it is done by Javascript, in the onload event. What I think would be amazing was if web browsers had this intelligence, and those tags would be included in the next HTML Specification. I know I could be anybody to suggest something, but I also believe that anybody that uses the Web could have good ideas to improve it. You can see my Javascript Self explorer at <web>http://sitedosergio.sitesbr.net/tools</web> Ops, our browsers are not prepared to render those links yet... Hope they do it soon ! Best Regards Sergio Abreu São Paulo - Brazil
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