On 5 August 2016 at 16:59, Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:33:41AM -0400, Robert Weiner wrote: >> Just a small thing. >> >> As of Texinfo 6.1, HTML output is generating anchors like so: >> >> <a name="Smart-Keys"></a> >> >> The non-obsolete way of doing that now, compatible with HTML5 and prior >> versions is: >> >> <a id="Smart-Keys"></a> > > Using id instad of name leads to validation errors with the 4.01 > doctype: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > That's because in this dtd, id type is ID which is too restrictive, > while in html5 it is much less restricted. > > It is possible to abandon strict validity, I guess that most if not all > browser are ok with id with less restrictive content, but having > something valid is also very convenient to debug the html.
That's good to know. As long as we are targetting the 4.01 transitional version, we should definitely use <a name=...> instead of <a id=...>. Previous discussion of this here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00056.html I think we should have an option to output HTML 5 to help facilitate automatic processing of the HTML file with JavaScript.
