On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:50:18 +0200, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Every now and then, the issue of a global href="" attribute for all
elements comes up. There are many valid use cases for this, like being
able to make all cells in a table row act like a link, or making a banner
ad act like a single block of a link.
Unfortunately, I've been told over and over by implementers that a global
href="" is a bad idea, and at the end of the day, the implementors are
the
ones who have the final say, so that's just a non-starter.
There are also alternative suggestions, like making <a> contain any
element. Unfortunately, none of these end up working (e.g. for this
proposal, <a><p></a> would create an unexpected DOM -- we'd have to make
</p> end tags not optional when the next end tag was an </a>, which would
be somewhat confusing).
The rules for optional end tags are already pretty confusing. I don't
think it's a problem to require </p> when the "p" element is the last
child of an "a" element.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
