- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:54:53 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, ppj wrote: > > The Goal: Links w/o anchors. > The Strategy: Two stage process. > 1) get an extra 'search' attribute on to the <a> tag in HTML so that we > have: > e.g. <a href='...' search='...'>link text</a> This is already possible using XPointer. > 2) If there's take-up, then later on push for adding a date-time of > creation attribute to <a>. This will add link history to the internet. This doesn't seem to be necessary to solve the problem you stated. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Darxus at ChaosReigns.com wrote: > > It seems odd to me that the definition of the id attribute doesn't > mention its use as a fragment identifier. > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#the-id-attribute I've added a paragraph mentioning the uses of the id="" attribute. On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, ppj wrote: > > Folks have suggested XPointer vs. attribute hack on the <a> element. But > I would prefer the element to have something superficial ordinary people > can understand, even if behind the scenes the browser turns that into > XPointer. I'm not convinced that the syntax of XPointer is preventing authors from using it. I think the lack of implementations, or the lack of desire to use the feature, are more likely problems. > What's the present rate of user uptake of XPointer? XPointer has not seen much success in getting browsers to implement it, unfortunately, and the only implementation I know of (Gecko for XML documents) isn't used much. I encourage you to look at this FAQ entry: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_the_spec.3F ...for advice on how to bring this feature forward. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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