- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:36:04 +0100
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:55:56 +0100, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote: > > Brett Zamir wrote: >> Hi, >> Internet Explorer has an attribute on anchor elements for URNs: >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534710%28VS.85%29.aspx > Internet Explorer supports a non-standard attribute on the "A" element > called "urn", which accepts an URN identifying some resource. > > It is described in detail here: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534710(VS.85).aspx > > It is not apparent that this attribute causes any behavior in the > browser itself. It is possible that this is exposed to browser > extensions in some way to allow them to overload the behavior of a link > which identifies a particular class of resource. > > It does not seem that this attribute has achieved wide author adoption > nor wide application support. IE's .urn attribute is present on *all* elements, and is part of IE's "namespaces". It's the equivalent of DOM's .namespaceURI. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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