- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:02:52 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > Probably a crazy dream, but is there a cogent argument for changing > anchor to a block level element? > > Why was anchor made inline? Because otherwise you couldn't have a sentence with a [link] sprinkled in, and that's traditionally the way you'd want a link to behave in a hyperlinked document. I know (from the GAWDS list) that you'd want something like an entire DIV, with block level children, to be an anchor...but accommodating that specific requirement would have repercussions for the most common way of adding links, imho. -- 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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