Re: XHTML has no ...

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>>
>>>> * XHTML has no...
>>>>
>>>> - ... attribut `name' in `<a name="'. `id' is enough for anchors.
>>>>  Right now we have:
>>>>
>>>>     <a name="s" id="s">...
>>>>
>>>>  Should be:
>>>>
>>>>    <a name="s" id="s">...
>>>
>>> If I look at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp
>>> it seems that the a tag has a name, but no id......????
>>
>> The id mentioned below under the headline `Standard Attributes'.
>>
>> But, yes, you're right. The `name' attribute is deprecated but still
>> completely legal, as the DTD used for publishing
>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd) reveals:
>
> Well, I *can* take it out if it is better like this.  I guess you are saying I
> should...


In fairly modern browsers it works with just the ID set. But as it is
still legal to keep the `name' attribute there is no reason to remove it
now. Once we switch to XHTML 2 we'll have to ...

Not shure, how old a browser has to be to not support anchors without
the `name' in it.





> Fixed, thanks.


Thank YOU, Cartsen ;-)






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