- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:08:59 -0700
Ian Hickson wrote: > Every now and then, the issue of a global href="" attribute for all > elements comes up. There are many valid use cases for this, like being > able to make all cells in a table row act like a link, or making a banner > ad act like a single block of a link. > > Unfortunately, I've been told over and over by implementers that a global > href="" is a bad idea, and at the end of the day, the implementors are the > ones who have the final say, so that's just a non-starter. Which implementations have you heard this from? As far as mozilla goes we would have no technical problems implementing this. The problems that I can see are of a more 'social' type. I.e. how to behave when two links are nested, or when a button is nested inside a link. Or how the event model interacts with the navigation action. All these problems exist already, but might become more common if it was easier to sprinkle 'href' attributes throughout the DOM. / Jonas
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