Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/06/06 00:53

John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, so in the case of creating an image map, using just id is okay?

Oh, that belongs to the tricky part. Using just name is okay.

I must admit that I don't know the details of the current browser
situation in support to using just id in <map>. But support to name is
surely at least as good, so you win nothing by using id. The situation
is different in normal linking, since you _can_ win in conciseness:
compare <h2 id="foo">...</h2> with <h2><a name="foo">...</a></h2>.

(XHTML 1.1 is particularly absurd here, disallowing name, making id
required, and requiring <map> elements to identifiers without "#",
thereby making the page fail on existing browsers.)

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