On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:46PM -0700, Alex Calara wrote:
> I don't know if this is related, but the NAME attribute is deprecated
> in XHTML, being replaced by ID.
>
This is only true for a subset of elements: a, applet, form, frame,
iframe, img, and map. Even so I'm not sure how you can deprecate something
in a practical manner which is specified by the parent specification. If
only for backwards compatibility I don't see it going away soon in the real
world even for those elements.
At any rate I was considering having '%' match both id and name
properties. That would work for me, but I didn't want to assume that would
work for everyone else.
I would guess at lower parts of the learning curve most people don't
understand the difference between name and id anyway. It was certainly true
for me. It took a bit to figure out why I couldn't find named elements
using '#'.
Austin
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