- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:01:13 -0700
- To: timbl@w3.org
- Cc: phayes@ihmc.us, fielding@gbiv.com, masinter@adobe.com, julian.reschke@gmx.de, mnot@mnot.net, www-tag@w3.org
And fast-forwarding to the Web of today: TimBL> The semantics of the hash sign are defined web-wide TimBL> to mean that "a#b" can be used to denote whatever is denoted by "b" in TimBL> the document denoted by "a". transmutes into A#B means pass B as an argument into whatever A returns --- this is how many AJAX-powered Web applications extend the meaning of '#'. One could squint at this and pretend that the earlier behavior that Tim describes fits into this new model by saying: "Just believe that HTML pages with no script in them --- or alternatively, HTML pages that didn't have a script in them that consumed 'B' behave "as if there were a onLoad document handler that put focus on B". But I believe that interpretation is a mistake, because it goes down the rat-hole of describing the meaning of content in terms of user-agent vehavior. -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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