- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:57:18 -0500
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Roger H?gensen <rescator at emsai.net> wrote: > It seems like in all cases these are simply a URI, and whether it takes you > to some place or if it loads in something is purely contextual. > So why not spec all those to simply be synonyms for href (which is used both > for inbound and outbound). You mean <img href="foo"> and/or <a src="foo"> should work? That would be very confusing. What happens if you have <img href="foo" src="bar">? In particular, will code like document.getElementsByTagName("img")[0].src = "foo"; still work even if there's also an href attribute? Or what about document.getElementsByTagName("img").removeAttribute("src"); to hide the image? That will suddenly fail if there's an href attribute. This is not, in effect, a backwards-compatible change. (Although it would be nice if <link rel="stylesheet" href="foo"> and <script src="foo"></script> worked the same way, like <style src="foo"></style> or such . . .) Or am I misunderstanding you?
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