Re: fragment identifiers from Tim Bray on 2002-07-23 (www-tag@w3.org from July 2002)

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:07:50 -0700
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-ID: <3D3D6336.7060400@textuality.com>

Roy T. Fielding wrote:

[Good stuff, Roy]

>   In HTML, a fragment
> identifies a portion of the complete virtual document, not
> just the bits within the HTML framework.

I'm not sure about that - in *valid* HTML, in principle, a fragment 
could refer to a "portion" of the data; in real life a fragment seems 
effectively an arrow pointing at a location within the document... I've 
never seen a user agent that would process foo.html#bar by selecting out 
the element that had name="bar" or id="bar", only by maneuvering to 
where that element starts.

Not that this changes anything in the underlying argument. -Tim

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