This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 10412 - restriction of "bookmark" to <a>/<area> is arbitrary
Summary: restriction of "bookmark" to <a>/<area> is arbitrary
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: TrackerIssue
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-08-21 18:11 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:


Attachments

Description Julian Reschke 2010-08-21 18:11:25 UTC
The definition of bookmark changed from HTML4:

  "Refers to a bookmark. A bookmark is a link to a key entry point within an extended document. The title attribute may be used, for example, to label the bookmark. Note that several bookmarks may be defined in each document." -- <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links>

to

  "The bookmark keyword may be used with a and area elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink.

The bookmark keyword gives a permalink for the nearest ancestor article element of the linking element in question, or of the section the linking element is most closely associated with, if there are no ancestor article elements." -- <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#link-type-bookmark>

This is quite a radical change, and it would be nice if somebody could provide data showing that bookmark indeed isn't used the way defined in HTML4.

Separate from that it's totally unclear why bookmark is restricted to <a>/<area> - why shouldn't it also provide a permalink for the whole document when appearing on <link>?

This is an arbitrary restriction which just complicates the registry (no matter where it is; separate issue)
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-21 21:50:34 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This describes what real-world usage of "bookmark" actually is -- namely, a permalink (e.g. for blog entries). It makes no sense to talk about page-wide permalinks... that's the document's address, by definition.
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-09-15 10:03:56 UTC
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/124