Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-30 Thread Shannon
There's a lot of focus on use cases. Here is the one that led me to start this thread: http://www.duttondirect.com/automotive/for_sale (disclaimer: I am not responsible for the design of this page) The table hover effect is not easily acheived without global href. My client likes it, the

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-30 Thread David Gerard
Realistically, are people ever going to stop using a href= in the next twenty years? Even if it's marked deprecated? - d.

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-30 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lot of focus on use cases. Here is the one that led me to start this thread: http://www.duttondirect.com/automotive/for_sale (disclaimer: I am not responsible for the design of this page) The table hover effect is

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, 30 May 2008 17:12:12 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell a block-level a is already supported just fine, as you *can* wrap block-level content in an a and have it work as expected right now, and CSSing an a into display:block works wonderfully. It

[whatwg] [Slightly OT(?)] Programmatically defined styles [Re: Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]]

2008-05-30 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On 22 May 2008, at 11:40, Ian Hickson wrote: [I wrote:] PS: How should colour be added to tables like these in HTML5 with neither of the attributes bgcolor and style? Class attribute and external stylesheets. (Possibly a data-* attribute.) I actually thought this might be one of the

Re: [whatwg] [Slightly OT(?)] Programmatically defined styles [Re: Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]]

2008-05-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 30 May 2008, �istein E. Andersen wrote: [I wrote:] PS: How should colour be added to tables like these in HTML5 with neither of the attributes bgcolor and style? Class attribute and external stylesheets. (Possibly a data-* attribute.) I actually thought this might be one

Re: [whatwg] Scoped tabindex proposal

2008-05-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: Currently if you want to use the tabindex to change the tab order you mostly have to specify tabindex on all links and form controls prior to the area you want to modify the tab order, because otherwise that area would be before all prior

Re: [whatwg] Proposal for a link attribute to replace a href

2008-05-30 Thread Ernest Cline
Having looked at the discussion thus has generated, I have a counterproposal to make. First of all, given that full support for hyperlinks requires support for seven attributes (href, target, ping, rel, media, hreflang, type), I can fully understand web developers not wanting to make it