The most common use case for href="" on every element seems to be about
removing lots of characters when creating a navigation menu or a blog roll
or similar list. So instead of typing
<ul>
<li><a href="">test</a>
...
you would type
<ul>
<li href="">test
...
Maybe we can change the content model of <ul> (and perhaps <ol>) to allow
a series of <a> elements:
<ul>
<a href="">test</a>
...
For backwards compatibility text content would be allowed inside <ul> but
must be ignored for the purposes of determining the semantics of the
content (in a conforming HTML5 UA). This would allow:
<ul>
<a href="">test</a> |
<a href="">test</a> |
...
Alternatively <nav> could be redefined to have this type of semantics when
its content model is just <a> elements and text content.
(Also thanks to Sjoerd Visscher.)
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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