15974 2012-02-13 16:17:54 +0000 There are many users of HTML today who are not necessarily document authors. They are CMS users, forum posters, etc. I think it is odd that so many years later we are still using "a href" for links. "Anchor" and "hyper-reference" do not match the vocabula 2012-02-14 08:32:24 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian annevk mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 64032 0 contributor 2012-02-13 16:17:54 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: There are many users of HTML today who are not necessarily document authors. They are CMS users, forum posters, etc. I think it is odd that so many years later we are still using "a href" for links. "Anchor" and "hyper-reference" do not match the vocabulary of the users and these terms are meaningless, confusing, and intimidating to them. On the other hand, there is an existing link element, although it is not used for what users typically consider links on the web. I understand it would be a drastic change, but I think it would be great if users could use a link element within the page body, perhaps with a destination attribute, for links. "Anchor" is weighing us down. Posted from: 130.91.145.204 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7 64067 1 annevk 2012-02-14 08:32:24 +0000 [citation needed]