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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] State of the art in anchors?
Le 2004-10-31 09:12 (dimanche), Norman Walsh a écrit / On 2004-10-31 09:12 (dimanche), Norman Walsh wrote : > > Lots of templates in the XSL stylesheets attempt to generate > <a name="xxx"> where it would be more convenient to just output > IDs. > > For example: > > <ul> > <li id="itemid"><p>Some content</p></li> > </ul> > > instead of > > <ul> > <li><p><a name="itemid">Some content</p></li> > </ul> > > Are IDs on any (X)HTML element considered widely enough supported > now to rely on only the ID attribute markup? > I have many sites relying on this "id" markup and it works fine with standard compliant browsers such as the Mozilla family browsers, Konqueror, etc. As for MSIE, I had noticed that sometimes headings like <h1 id="news">News</h1> would have a temporary lack of display. Then the headings would re-appear after some page scrolling or text selection. But it was one of the famous horrible MSIE bugs: this time the "IE6 Peekaboo Bug" http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html which has nothing to do with the all-good proposed "id" markup. In conclusion, the "id" markup is far cleaner than the old <a name="xxx"> markup. The "id" markup works fine. Using the "id" markup for DocBook will also make it possible for us to generate XHTML 1.1 compliant HTML output [1]. For all these reasons, I hope it will be soon fully adopted. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/ On the a and map elements, the name attribute has been removed in favor of the id attribute (as defined in [XHTMLMOD]). cf. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes -- Marc-Aurèle DARCHE <http://www.cynode.org/> AFUL <http://www.aful.org/> Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux/Logiciels Libres French speaking Linux and Libre Software Users' Association
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