- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 03:38:57 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 7. Januar 2003 04:02 schrieb Ian Hickson: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote: > > > I think a href has a behaviour that effectivly consists of three steps: > > > The behaviour requesting the object from the user agent. (That makes it > > > possible for a spider or a tabbed browser to thread / tab) > > > The user agent creating and delivering the object. > > > The behaviour invoking the desired method or altering the desired > > > attributes of that object. > > > > I would say that's its semantics. > > I'd say it is desired default behaviour specified by its semantics. > Like bold being the default style for b using b { font-weight:bold; }. Changing the font is a lot more specific than "some way to request the object". That's, IMHO, one of the differences between semantics and behaviour: The semantics are vague generalisations ("emphasis", "link which is requested then fetched and processed"), while the behaviour is pretty specific ("italics", "an onclick handler that..."). > Do you have a link for Qube? Nope, I've only heard about it in passing. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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