Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-13 Thread Toby Inkster
Better than a[name] would be a[href], assuming a relevent URI scheme exists: a href=geo:51.36,-0.05London, abbr title=United KingomUK/abbr/a (See: http://geouri.org/) Disadvantages would be: 1. Involves using a poorly supported URI scheme. People using browsers that don't support the scheme

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-13 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Toby Inkster wrote: Better than a[name] would be a[href], assuming a relevent URI scheme exists: a href=geo:51.36,-0.05London, abbr title=United KingomUK/abbr/a (See: http://geouri.org/) Disadvantages would be: 1. Involves using a poorly supported URI scheme. People using browsers that don't

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-11 Thread victor jalencas
On 11/05/07, James Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan King wrote: a[name has restrictions that input[name] does not have. ...snip... 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1 Note and removed. Thanks! Well you could always add a _0, _1, _2, ...etc suffix, couldn't you?

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-11 Thread Scott Reynen
On May 11, 2007, at 4:03 AM, victor jalencas wrote: On 11/05/07, James Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan King wrote: a[name has restrictions that input[name] does not have. ...snip... 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1 Note and removed. Thanks! Well you could

[uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-10 Thread James Craig
Just a thought: Haven't thought too much about this, but are there any obvious gotchas to using an anchor element with name attribute as a potential replacement for the abbr-design-pattern? The only things I can foresee are the plus sign (+) in pre-UTC time zones and the semicolon (;) in

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-10 Thread Ryan King
On May 10, 2007, at 3:23 PM, James Craig wrote: Just a thought: Haven't thought too much about this, but are there any obvious gotchas to using an anchor element with name attribute as a potential replacement for the abbr-design-pattern? I believe a[name] and @id need to be unique across

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-10 Thread James Craig
Ryan King wrote: James Craig wrote: Haven't thought too much about this, but are there any obvious gotchas to using an anchor element with name attribute as a potential replacement for the abbr-design-pattern? I believe a[name] and @id need to be unique across an entire page. This

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-10 Thread Ryan King
On May 10, 2007, at 4:45 PM, James Craig wrote: Ryan King wrote: James Craig wrote: Haven't thought too much about this, but are there any obvious gotchas to using an anchor element with name attribute as a potential replacement for the abbr-design-pattern? I believe a[name] and @id

Re: [uf-discuss] a[name] as machine data?

2007-05-10 Thread James Craig
Ryan King wrote: a[name has restrictions that input[name] does not have. ...snip... 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1 Note and removed. Thanks! http://microformats.org/wiki/assistive-technology-abbr- results#Markup_Possibilities James