- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:54:27 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > At 22:08 +0000 UTC, on 2006-03-09, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > * It should be possible for scripts to add content to placeholder > > elements without those placeholder elements being non-conformant. > > This is a very useful programming idiom, not least of which because > > adding content to an existing element (whether attributes or child > > nodes) is a lot easier than adding the element in the first place. > > Wouldn't a <placeholder> element be more appropriate then? How would that work? > > * It should be possible to have a group of pages that have a similar > > structure, with elements annotated as necessary. For example, a menu > > list could be the same on each page, but with the currently loaded > > page simply not having the "href" attribute on its link, or some such. > > I won't claim there might not be valid cases, but this seems like a bad > example to me. If something is not a link it should not be marked-up as > such. How useful is it to the user to provide a hyperlink that points > nowhere? Well, we decide what "markup for a link" consists of. If we say it is just an <a> element with an href="" attribute, then an <a> element without an href="" attribute isn't marked up as a link. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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