- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:13:40 +0100
- To: Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> writes: > I too have run into this (specifically wanting to preserve old > deep-links) and think it would be reasonable, in theory. May I ask why you changed the element ids at all? > However, in practice I see no reason for browsers to expend valuable > engineering resources on this when an empty `<div>` (or, more > traditionally, an empty `<a id=""></a>`) suffices to give the same > functionality. I believe this to be wrong – an empty element does not give the same functionality; a wrapping <a> or <div> element, however, does that. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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