- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:58:50 +0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Jasper Magick wrote: > > According to this: > http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F > > w3.org validates Strict. But, in the source code I found this: > > <h2 class="newsHeading"><a name="news" id="news" shape="rect">News</a></h2> > > I thought NAME was replaced by ID in Strict doctypes, making NAME no > longer valid? Well, you thought wrong. in XHTML 1.0 Strict it's still perfectly ok in situations like these. XHTML 1.1 would be another matter. > Also couldn't you have archived the same effect with less code if you > did this: > > <h2 class="newsHeading" id="news">News</h2> I'm guessing they did this for backwards compatibility with browsers (and some assistive technologies) that still don't play ball with linking to fragment identifiers. Although the shape="rect" seems a bit useless to me. P -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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