Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-09-05 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:37:30 +0200, Keryx webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To make the whole LI-element clickable I have to resort to CSS ( ul#nav li a { display: block } ) which does not work in all browsers or JavaScript, which also is a hassle. Yeah, li href=test/li does work in all browsers

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-09-05 Thread James Graham
Keryx webb wrote: Will it break backwards compatibility? Yes, if todays browsers are supposed to be able to render WHATWG-pages. But there are lots of other things in WHATWG that they do not understand either. It's only the very latest browsers that can handle canvas. No browser fully

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-09-04 Thread Keryx webb
Sorry for starting a thread and then being away for quite a while. I've been exceptionally busy! Let's clarify some of my wishes: Do I wish that the href-attribute is available on exactly *every* element? No, but on many *more* than today. A. I do find myself writing a lot of: abbr

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-30 Thread Matthew Raymond
Kornel Lesinski wrote: My current solution is: tr onclick=this.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].click() This can be accomplished by having a elements in each individual cell... Of course it can, but it bloats code a lot. You have to add several redundant links, add tabindex=-1 to avoid

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: a href= h2.../h2 p.../p /a If we will change model of A from !ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- anchor -- to something else then it will create implications for parser. What implications? Changing the formal content model of an

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
- Original Message - From: Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Fedoniouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WHATWG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [whatwg] href on any element Andrew

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: a href= h2.../h2 p.../p /a If we will change model of A from !ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- anchor -- to something else then it will create implications for parser. What

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Ric Hardacre
Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:43 +0200, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's arguably a very minor improvement, The only benefit I'm aware of is the convenience it provides to authors for hand coding, but that benefit is

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread dolphinling
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: If yes then let it be just : section href=... h2... p... /section But that isn't backwards compatible. data:text/html,tabletra hef=www.google.comtdlink to google/td/atdplain text/td/tr/table Neither is a around table cells or list items.

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Francisco Monteiro
What practical use has this for Mr Joe Public? Give me a really useful example in very simple wording! Francisco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dolphinling Sent: 29 August 2006 16:46 To: WHAT WG List Subject: Re: [whatwg] href on any

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:02:22 +0100, Francisco Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What practical use has this for Mr Joe Public? Give me a really useful example in very simple wording! Having data table representing list of items where large clickable area is useful - i.e. inbox in a

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Matthew Raymond
Kornel Lesinski wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:02:22 +0100, Francisco Monteiro Having data table representing list of items where large clickable area is useful - i.e. inbox in a webmail, list of contacts, forum threads listing, etc. I've ran into this problem many times and seen many

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-29 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:55:01 +0100, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having data table representing list of items where large clickable area is useful - i.e. inbox in a webmail, list of contacts, forum threads listing, etc. I've ran into this problem many times and seen many

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Keryx webb wrote: Shut me up and give me a link if this has been discussed before, but I can't find it on Google. Has there been any discussion of allowing the href-attribute in (almost) any element, as in XHTML 2.0? It's been mentioned, mostly in passing. The biggest

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Keryx webb wrote: Shut me up and give me a link if this has been discussed before, but I can't find it on Google. Has there been any discussion of allowing the href-attribute in (almost) any element, as in XHTML 2.0? Personally I think this is the one killer feature of XHTML 2 and I would

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: It isn't always clear what it would mean, either (consider col href=, or optgroup href=). If the feature were to be added to Web Apps 2.0 (or other future spec) I think it would be sensible to limit it to inline, non-interactive, non-empty elements (e.g. abbr, em, strong,

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:43 +0200, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's arguably a very minor improvement, The only benefit I'm aware of is the convenience it provides to authors for hand coding, but that benefit is negligible when you consider the abilities of many authoring tools

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-28 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:43 +0200, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's arguably a very minor improvement, The only benefit I'm aware of is the convenience it provides to authors for hand coding, but that benefit is negligible when

[whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-26 Thread Keryx webb
Hi all Shut me up and give me a link if this has been discussed before, but I can't find it on Google. Has there been any discussion of allowing the href-attribute in (almost) any element, as in XHTML 2.0? Personally I think this is the one killer feature of XHTML 2 and I would soo much

Re: [whatwg] href on any element

2006-08-26 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, From: Keryx webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shut me up and give me a link if this has been discussed before, but I can't find it on Google. Has there been any discussion of allowing the href-attribute in (almost) any element, as in XHTML 2.0?