On 3/4/07, Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:25:45 +0100, Colin Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Alexey, I see your point regarding buttons, but there are many other
> cases where an a element seems unnecessary and redundant (as others have
> pointed out):
>
> Navigation:
> <ul id="main_nav">
> <li href="/">Home</li>
> <li href="/about/">About</li>
> </ul>
How is this better than <li><a></a></li>, not taking the amount of typing
into account?
The sister issue of easy-of-typing is ease-of-reading. Human editing
of raw HTML isn't going away. In headier coding disciplines, high
readability is prized. Most code -- even HTML code -- will spend a lot
more of its time being maintained than being written. Being able to
understad things at a glance is important.
<li class="" href=""> is easier to read than <li class=""><a href="">.
Admittedly, the main reason bullet code is hard to read is because IE6
doesn't handle indentation in bullets properly. Specifying a new
attribute on <li> that won't be parsed correctly by IE6 is not a
solution to that.
--
Leons Petrazickis
