Ian Hickson 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.
Which implementations have you heard this from? As far as mozilla goes
we would have no technical problems implementing this.
The problems that I can see are of a more 'social' type. I.e. how to
behave when two links are nested, or when a button is nested inside a
link. Or how the event model interacts with the navigation action.
All these problems exist already, but might become more common if it was
easier to sprinkle 'href' attributes throughout the DOM.
/ Jonas
