- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:19:32 -0500
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Laurens Holst wrote: > Matthew Raymond schreef: >> 3) It pollutes the URL. > > No it does not. This preserves the ability to link to a certain state > within a document (for free, it is inherent to the design), which is > quite a valueable merit. That's somewhat true, but we need to distinguish between a presentational state and linking to a specific part of the document. If you're using an ID in the URL solely to trigger the :target pseudo-class, they you're talking about presentation. If the user specifically wants to link to a certain element within the document, then that's a navigational state. What was proposed was using the document URL for presentational purposes. The optimal behavior of a tab is not to link to the associated tab section, but to display that section. Therefore, you're defending a change of URL for presentational rather than navigational purposes. Hmm... Then again, that's what :target is for isn't it? Perhaps it would be useful to run through the use cases for :target...
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