Let’s free A and HREF!

Take a look to this example:

<nav class="toolbar">
<ul>
	<li><a herf="index.html">Home</a></li>
	<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
	<li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
	<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
	<li><a href="javascript:bookmark()">Bookmark</a></li>
</ul>	
</nav>

Isn’t better if it was possible to be written like this:

<toolbar>
	<li herf="index.html">Home</li>
	<li href="about.html">About</li>
	<li href="downloads.html">Downloads</li>
	<li href="contact.html">Contact</li>
	<li href="javascript:bookmark()">Bookmark</li>	
</toolbar>

or even:

<toolbar>
	<command herf="index.html">Home</command>
	<command href="about.html">About</command>
	<command href="downloads.html">Downloads</command>
	<command href="contact.html">Contact</command>
	<command href="javascript:bookmark()">Bookmark</command>	
</toolbar>

I mean why should I have to add <a> tag to every object/tag I want to link to something? Isn’t better if I were able to add href="" attribute to this object/tag without using <a> tag?

Why don’t we use href="" as a global attribute?

Likewise, think of using <a> tag without href="" when the link name = the link address:

<p>
.., you can download it from <a>http://example.com/downloads/</a>.
</p>

instead of:

<p>
.., you can download it from <a href="http://example.com/downloads/">http://example.com/downloads/</a>.
</p>