- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:55:37 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> What using a link *does*, is behavior. In browsers, clicking on an "a" One has to be very careful here. An a element has semantics that should be specified in the language definition itself, not in some styling language, that may or may not be available to the browser. An "a" element's href attribute indicates the identity of a another resource that provides additional information about the subject identified by the content of that element. That is part of the fundamental language for HTML. Note that this has nothing to do with one resource replacing another in the display, etc. Links are noun-like, even though people trying to write Visual Basic in HTML tend to think of them as verb-like. Otherwise one ends up with completely semantics free markup that cannot be interpreted other than by a human looking at the material visually. (Or, with a very rich behavioural language, by a machine with an extensive parser.) You lock out simple applications that implement enough of the language to extract the important structures.
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