- From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:21:54 -0400
- To: Jim Dabell <jim-www-html@jimdabell.com>, www-html@w3.org
Etan Wexler wrote:
> Jim Dabell wrote to <mailto:www-html@w3.org> on 8 April 2003 in "Re: 'email'
> element type" (<mid:200304081736.51106.jim-www-html@jimdabell.com>):
>
> > I don't consider it to be redundant. mailto hrefs are behavioural, an
> > <email> element is also informational.
>
> How is an 'email' element more informational than the presence of a "mailto"
> URI?
If I may presume, based on his comments so far, I imagine that he means
that a user agent could style it differently than other sorts of links.
However, that can already by done with the CSS3 Selector
[href^="mailto:"]
I must admit to being tempted to do things like:
[href^-"mailto:"]::before {content:url("envelope.gif")}
[href^-"gopher:"]::before {content:url("gopher.gif")}
[href^="https:"]::before {content:url("padlock.gif")}
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