On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:51:10 -0500, berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why using a:link ?
>
> <a> </a> means that the word inside is a link
>
> a { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; }
>
> is the same as setting
>
> a:link { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; }
>
> Link is a redundant tag
>
> I presume that in XHTML 2 it will desappear or better <a> </a> will become
> <link> </link> beacause the big difference between link and visited,
> active, hover, and focus is that link means that it is a button or a
> clickable word, and visited, active, hover, focus explain how this button
> wil act.
Your presumption was wrong. It may help to spend some time on the w3
site and read the specs.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-meta.html#s_metamodule
Short version: <link> will continue to be a metainformation element
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hyperAttributes.html#s_hyperAttributesmodule
Short version: all elements that have the Hypertext Attributes as part
of them (which is almost all of them) will be able to be links. The
CSS spec contains the :link in preparation for that, as it will be
available for many more elements in the future.
-Bryan
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