10412 2010-08-21 18:11:25 +0000 restriction of "bookmark" to <a>/<area> is arbitrary 2010-10-04 13:57:34 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#link-type-bookmark TrackerIssue P2 normal --- 1 julian.reschke ian ian mike mjs public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 37679 0 julian.reschke 2010-08-21 18:11:25 +0000 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) 37682 1 ian 2010-08-21 21:50:34 +0000 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. 39049 2 mjs 2010-09-15 10:03:56 +0000 http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/124