{"id":16,"date":"2012-04-24T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:16:16","slug":"lets-free-a-and-href","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/2012\/04\/24\/lets-free-a-and-href\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s free A and HREF!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look to this example:<\/p>\n

<nav class=\"toolbar\">\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a herf=\"index.html\">Home<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"about.html\">About<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"downloads.html\">Downloads<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"contact.html\">Contact<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"javascript:bookmark()\">Bookmark<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\t\r\n<\/nav>\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nIsn’t better if it was possible to be written like this:\n<\/p>\n
<toolbar>\r\n\t<li herf=\"index.html\">Home<\/li>\r\n\t<li href=\"about.html\">About<\/li>\r\n\t<li href=\"downloads.html\">Downloads<\/li>\r\n\t<li href=\"contact.html\">Contact<\/li>\r\n\t<li href=\"javascript:bookmark()\">Bookmark<\/li>\t\r\n<\/toolbar>\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nor even:\n<\/p>\n
<toolbar>\r\n\t<command herf=\"index.html\">Home<\/command>\r\n\t<command href=\"about.html\">About<\/command>\r\n\t<command href=\"downloads.html\">Downloads<\/command>\r\n\t<command href=\"contact.html\">Contact<\/command>\r\n\t<command href=\"javascript:bookmark()\">Bookmark<\/command>\t\r\n<\/toolbar>\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nI mean why should I have to add <a><\/code> tag to every object\/tag I want to link to something? Isn’t better if I were able to add href=\"\"<\/code> attribute to this object\/tag without using <a><\/code> tag?\n<\/p>\n
\nWhy don’t we use href=\"\"<\/code> as a global attribute<\/em>?\n<\/p>\n
\nLikewise, think of using <a><\/code> tag without href=\"\"<\/code> when the link name = the link address:\n<\/p>\n
<p>\r\n.., you can download it from <a>http:\/\/example.com\/downloads\/<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/pre>\n
\ninstead of:\n<\/p>\n
<p>\r\n.., you can download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/downloads\/\">http:\/\/example.com\/downloads\/<\/a>.\r\n<\/p><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/html5spec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}