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In writing a short article on the a element (http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2013/02/html5/link) I noticed what I first thought was a discrepancy between the WHATWG spec. and the W3C spec. The WHATWG spec. (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element) explicitly lists the download and ping attributes as being part of the a element, whereas the W3C spec (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element) does not. However the W3C specification does mention both the download and ping attributes elsewhere in the specification (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#downloading-resources and http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#hyperlink-auditing respectively). I think that the W3C specification should match the WHATWG one in this case and explicitly list both the download and ping attributes under the specification of the a element.
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: <a ping> was removed from the HTML5 spec due to the WG's ISSUE-1 and ISSUE-2 decision: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0132.html We're tracking the possible addition of <a download> in bug 20583. I'm resolving this bug as WORKSFORME, since we already have a bug tracking <a download>, and since the ISSUE-1/ISSUE-2 decision prevents us from re-adding <a ping> without new information.
Ok, but the ping attribute still exists in the specification under the headline "hyperlink auditing" (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#hyperlink-auditing) therefore a discrepancy remains.
Ian, Good point. Reopening with a title that reflects the remaining issue.
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