Mind telling us where you 'actually' got that source code, because taking a look at that page and the facts your point seams to have as much substance as css in lynx.
Looking at that Oaxtepc page I see: <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="coordinates"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Oaxtepec&params=18_54_N_98_58_W_region:MX_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki";><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°54′N</span> <span class="longitude">98°58′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.9°N 98.967°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.9; -98.967</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p> There is no <a id="coordinates">, it's a span. Taking a look at the history of that template: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Coord/display/title&action=history It's been a span since the template was created, not an <a>. And to top it off your argument seams to completely forget one really, really, really, important fact... We don't permit WikiText to output <a> tags without a href, or with any custom attributes! And since we don't allow raw text on Wikipedia, there's no way that WikiText on Wikipedia can output a <a id="coordinates">. ;) Oh, and w3m gives me the same source code. ;) w3m-emacs gives me the same result. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:18:42 -0800, <[email protected]> wrote: > Why the two layers of <a> even if it passes > $ validate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxtepec > *** Errors validating Oaxtepec: *** > Error at line 2, character 33: there is no attribute "class" > Error at line 152, character 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished > Error at line 177, character 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished > > Why the </a> halfway through the first pair of > Coordinates: 18°54′N 98°58′W / 18.9°N 98.967°W / 18.9; -98.967 > > Why does it look fine in some browsers but ah-ha caught you in emacs-w3m? > > Could it be that Firefox and Chromium are fooled into thinking that the > outer <a id...> which lasts through the whole six coordinates should > render as a clickable link... which it apparently does even with > stylesheets off. Only emacs-w3m renders it right, revealing the badly > written HTML! > > Here's the code, > <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a id="coordinates"><a > href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate > system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a > rel="nofollow" class="external text" > href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Oaxtepec&params=18_54_N_98_58_W_region:MX_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki";><span > > class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, > and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°54′N</a> > <span class="longitude">98°58′W</span></span></span><span > class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span > class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this > location">18.9°N 98.967°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span > class="geo">18.9; > -98.967</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
