- From: Braden N. McDaniel <braden@shadow.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:01:18 -0400
- To: "Murray Macdonald" <murray@mha.ca>, "Jukka Korpela" <jkorpela@alpha.hut.fi>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: www-html-request@w3.org [mailto:www-html-request@w3.org]On Behalf > Of Murray Macdonald > Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 3:12 AM > To: Jukka Korpela > Cc: www-html@w3.org > Subject: Specifications for the NOHREF in various tags > > > Jukka Korpela wrote: > > > **) In AREA, the special keyword value NOHREF is allowed, too. > > I've always wondered why NOHREF isn't supported by <A>. It is often > desireable to have links that go nowhere to use as javascript event > sources. Some people use <A HREF="#"> but this is not ideal as it gets > added to the url in most UAs if clicked, not to mention that it > syntatically lacks elegance. Although events can easily be triggered > using the <DIV> tag, I still feel that the <A> tag should support > NOHREF. Comments? As you note, other elements can be used to trigger events. *Why* do you feel that A should support functionality that is available elsewhere? "A" is, as the name implies, for "anchors." Braden <http://www.endoframe.com>
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