- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:55:49 -0700
- To: Roy T.Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 25, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-indicated-part-of- > the-document > > If there is an a element in the DOM that has a name attribute whose > value is exactly equal to fragid (not decoded fragid), then the > first > such element in tree order is the indicated part of the document; > stop the algorithm here. ... > 3) the above algorithm is wrong -- most of the elements in HTML that > have name attributes are not valid destinations for hypertext > links and any browser that actually follows that algorithm would > break existing content if the anchor name happens to be something > commonly used in non-anchor name attribute (like "keywords", > "content-type", "author", "edit", etc.). oops, ignore that -- the "an a element" text loses its readability when pasted to plain text and I misread it an "an element" instead of "an <a> element". ....Roy
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