Jirka Kosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2008-10-02 18:17 +0200:

> Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> 
> > To me, that would suggest we make the [EMAIL PROTECTED] output a user 
> > option,
> > but change the default to be to not to output it anymore.
> 
> In principle I have nothing against going from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to @id. But 
> is
> this effort worth it (there are many places where IDs are generated)?
> What are the benefits of using @id instead [EMAIL PROTECTED] except 
> fractionally
> shorter HTML code?

For one, to help people avoid the problems they run into with
browsers when they serve documents as text/html that contain
<a.../> instances

For another, forward compatibility. It's quite possible that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will not be valid in HTML5 (there's no reason to keep it
since UAs use @id as targets for fragment identifiers).

  --Mike

-- 
Michael(tm) Smith
http://people.w3.org/mike/

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