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On Fri, 16 May 1997, David Trueman wrote:
> Is there any evidence that id= is not widely supported? I was under the
> impression that it was the preferred method (I certainly *much* prefer
> it). I admit that I am relatively ignorant in this area.
I have no personal objection, as long as the available weblint tools cope
with it, however:
Reading from http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-html32.html
HTML 3.2 Document Type Definition
<!--
W3C Document Type Definition for the HyperText Markup Language
version 3.2 as ratified by a vote of W3C member companies.
For more information on W3C look at URL http://www.w3.org/
Date: Tuesday January 14th 1997
Author: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
HTML 3.2 aims to capture recommended practice as of early '96
and as such to be used as a replacement for HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866).
Widely deployed rendering attributes are included where they
have been shown to be interoperable. SCRIPT and STYLE are
included to smooth the introduction of client-side scripts
and style sheets. Browsers must avoid showing the contents
of these element Otherwise support for them is not required.
ID, CLASS and STYLE attributes are not included in this version
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Based on this, it would seem to be one of those ideas that did not fly
with the W3C :-( although perhaps it might be revived in future
versions. Given that, I think we should avoid it unless someone wants to
create a weblint option that accepts it, which seems to be going a little
beyond the call of reason.
Just my opinion :-)
Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop
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>
>
> On Fri, 16 May 1997, James Fifield wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > No, it's not french that's broken. The tag "<h2 id=unpack>" is new and
> > > > surprised me:
> > >
> > > I think we should avoid syntax that is non-standard where possible,
> > > bearing in mind also that HTML+ and HTML3.0 died without approval, even if
> > > Lynx supports it. The equivalent accepted syntax <a name=
> > > works perfectly well for this purpose.
> > >
> > > Of course there are functions which will always be Lynx-specific, but that
> > > does not need to be one of them.
> > >
> > > Besides, we do not need to lead new sites to use stuff that is not widely
> > > supported, thus breaking (for some browsers) pages that they write, using
> > > our pages as models. It's not good user support.
> > >
> > > Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster
> >
> > I've converted build.html.fr to use <a name="name"> tag's instead of the
> > id="name", if we want to change it back later we can but this is more consistant
> > I think, (it's what the english version uses).
> >
> > --
> > James Fifield
> > <fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca>
> >
> >
>
> David Trueman,
> Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
> Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
>
>
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