----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne van Kesteren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WHATWG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:35 AM Subject: Re: [whatwg] Lists, <ins>/<del>, and <a>
| On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:16:54 +0200, Lachlan Hunt | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I don't know what the inversion attribute is supposed to mean, but the | > class attribute is semantically meaningless. However, we could | > introduce the edit and datetime attributes from the XHTML 2.0 draft's | > Edit Attributes Module [1]. | | I've personally proposed that as well, at least once. The problem, similar | to introducing href="" everywhere is that it's not backwards compatible. | However, as opposed to <a href="">, <del> and <ins> are not often used and | don't provide important functionality (the interaction most users have | with them is their visual appearance). | Anne, seems like I don't understand what "backward compatible" [1] means in this context. Could you explain what you mean here? Outdated UA will not interpret <li href="..." > but will do <a href="..." > Up-to-date UA will understand both. Looks as backward compatible solution to me. Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com OT little bit: in h-smile engine (htmlayout,etc) hyperlink implemented as a behavior:hyperlink Intrinsically [2] it applied to a[href] elements only but can be assigned to any DOM element as *[href] { behavior:hyperlink; } using CSS. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility [2] http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/master_ss_css.php | | > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-edit.html | | | | -- | Anne van Kesteren | <http://annevankesteren.nl/> | <http://www.opera.com/> | |
