Posted by dorayme on 01/09/08 00:47

In article <slrnfo7us2.2lf.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> The fact that <a> is "inline" so can't contain headings and divs and
> things is perhaps a bit of an anachronism these days. It's not clear to
> me who that rule is helping.
>
> There's nothing "logically" or "semantically" inline about an anchor as
> far as I can see. It's just a hyperlink and why shouldn't you hyperlink
> a whole lot of stuff at once?

Interesting. Perhaps it might be open to abuse, to encourage
designers to make huge chunks of their web page links, to be less
defined and therefore less useful to a user. If a user clicks on
"See an <a href="">enlargement</a> of this...", he knows fairly
well what he is about to buy into. But if the link could be a
whole tract of stuff with headings and paragraphs and whatever,
then there might need to be some other way to let the user know
what he is buying into if he clicks. Thus an actual loss of
meaning can be seen to be the danger. Just a thought for you.

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dorayme

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