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Bug 17118 - html anchor tags 1) Did I miss it, or did you forget to mention name= attribute? (You did mention href='#name", so I suppose it is still valid) 2) To lessen need for JavaScript could you give an option that makes it work like location.replace so a new ent
Summary: html anchor tags 1) Did I miss it, or did you forget to mention name= attribu...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-20 00:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-21 23:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-20 00:30:28 UTC
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20120329/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
html anchor tags
1) Did I miss it, or did you forget to mention name= attribute? (You did
mention href='#name", so I suppose it is still valid)
2) To lessen need for JavaScript could you give an option that makes it work
like location.replace so a new entry is not added to history object.
3) To lessen need for JavaScript, when using Target could give an option
essential can refocus the cursor to inside the target window?

Howard_Cary_Morris@hotmail.com

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:21:40 UTC
This bug was cloned to create bug 17946 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Edward O'Connor 2012-09-21 23:38:15 UTC
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Status: Awaiting Additional Information
Change Description: No spec change.
Rationale: I'll take each issue in order:

1. The spec defines the name attribute. Was there somewhere in
particular where you expected to read about it but it wasn't mentioned?

2 and 3. Could you tell us a bit more about how you imagine such
mechanisms working, and about the use cases that such mechanisms would
address?

Also, in the future, please file just one issue per bug.