- From: Devon Y. <vehementpetal@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:53:08 -0500
- To: tantek@cs.stanford.edu, www-html@w3.org
>This is false. Using ID for anchor targeting is a feature of >HTML4[1], and is supported in numerous (all?) modern browsers. No, I was correct. It doesn't work on Mozilla 1.2.1, Opera 6.05, or IE 6.0.26 on either of my Windows systems (Win 98 & ME). I just tested it again to be sure. > > I think links that don't work > > properly, can really confuse a person navigating the web. > >Since there are numerous links that don't work on the web, this >statement is equivalent to saying the web can really confuse a >person navigating the web, which is perhaps true. The point I was trying to make, was that authors shouldn't encourage confusing navigation. There's a big difference between a 404 page and an ID anchor that only takes a person to the top of a long page that at first glance has no relevant information. > > Small point... IE doesn't support HTMLs' <abbr>, which means > > it wouldn't support XHTMLs' <abbr> either. > >IE5+/Mac supports <abbr>. I think I got confused with another post I read earlier. I thought we were talking about Windows IE. I probably should've pointed that out anyway to be safe. > > As far as I know, the only Windows browsers right now that can > do >XHTML justice, are Mozilla and Opera 7 (beta 2). > >IMHO I don't know how to tell if any browser does XHTML justice, as not >only is there not a W3C XHTML test suite to see if any particular >browser does XHTML justice, but there is no W3C HTML4 test suite to >see if any particular browser does HTML4 justice (in spite of claims >made by vendors of several implementations - including IE5/Mac). Well I use XHTML as exclusively as I can, and every one of those documents work fine in Mozilla 1.x & Opera 7b2 (both on Windows). There are still a few bugs here and there in the implementations, but XHTML works just as good (if not better) than older HTML versions (for me). That's my test suite. >[1] > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-id > >" > The id attribute has several roles in HTML: > ... > As a target anchor for hypertext links. >" .....does IE5+/mac support it? Devon _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_virusprotection_3mf
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