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- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:18:04 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15974 Summary: There are many users of HTML today who are not necessarily document authors. They are CMS users, forum posters, etc. I think it is odd that so many years later we are still using "a href" for links. "Anchor" and "hyper-reference" do not match the vocabula Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: There are many users of HTML today who are not necessarily document authors. They are CMS users, forum posters, etc. I think it is odd that so many years later we are still using "a href" for links. "Anchor" and "hyper-reference" do not match the vocabulary of the users and these terms are meaningless, confusing, and intimidating to them. On the other hand, there is an existing link element, although it is not used for what users typically consider links on the web. I understand it would be a drastic change, but I think it would be great if users could use a link element within the page body, perhaps with a destination attribute, for links. "Anchor" is weighing us down. Posted from: 130.91.145.204 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7 -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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