On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Requests I've heard before I looked at :local-link(): >> >> * Simple equality >> * Ignore fragment >> * Ignore fragment and query >> * Further normalization (browsers don't normalize as much as they >> could during parsing, but maybe this should be an operation to modify >> the URL object rather than a comparison option) > > What about links that point to a null URL with a hash? ie <a > href="#back-to-top"> > Obviously this is a local link, but it doesn't really fit into the > host/path/query segmentation that's defined with the :local-link([0|1|2...]) > definition[1]. > Perhaps a :local-link(hash) keyword would be appropriate so that we could > select links within the page?
That's what :local-link (without the ()) is for - it selects links within the same page. That is, links where the url is identical, ignoring the hash. >> However, :local-link() also ignores port/scheme which is not typical. > > Isn't it perfectly reasonable to expect that a different scheme/port is > running an entirely different application? Yes, which is why Anne says that we should include port/scheme in the comparison. ~TJ
