Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-16 Thread Eugene T.S. Wong
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:55:43 -0800, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused. The subject of this thread you started is "Should ID be required for ?", yet now when a suggestion requires the use of an ID, you point out holes in it by trying to show that the required use of an

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-15 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting "Eugene T.S. Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Some manuscripts will need to refer to a that is on another page. Will there be a way of doing that? When XPointer is defined to work for text/html documents, yes. And otherwise you just use an "id" attribute as your subject suggests, but it s

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-14 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:19:22 +0600, Sander Tekelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a thought: perhaps applicable elements (those with a non-empty title attribute) could have an optional src attribute containing a URL to the remote document? Teal'c activated his http://www.whatwg.org/specs

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-14 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 21:55 +1100 UTC, on 2006-01-14, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: [...] >>> Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: I read the specification on , and I really like it... Some manuscripts will need to refer to a that is on another page. Will there be a way of doing that? Just a t

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-14 Thread ROBO Design
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:55:43 +0200, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: <...> Link to the nearest anchor in the relevant section of the page or, at the very least, just to the page itself. It's not an ideal solution, but there's not much else that can be don

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-14 Thread Simon Pieters
Hi, From: Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That would require making an ID for the element. How would users and developers access definitions without an ID? Link to the nearest anchor in the relevant section of the page or, at the very least, just to the page itself. It's not an ideal soluti

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-14 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:22:12 -0800, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: I read the specification on , and I really like it... Some manuscripts will need to refer to a that is on another page. Will there be a way of doing that? foo bar

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-13 Thread Eugene T.S. Wong
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:22:12 -0800, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: I read the specification on , and I really like it... Some manuscripts will need to refer to a that is on another page. Will there be a way of doing that? foo bar That would require mak

Re: [whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-13 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Eugene T.S. Wong wrote: I read the specification on , and I really like it... Some manuscripts will need to refer to a that is on another page. Will there be a way of doing that? foo bar -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/

[whatwg] Should ID be required for ?

2006-01-13 Thread Eugene T.S. Wong
Hi again. I read the specification on , and I really like it. Previously, I had never thought about using it; partly because I never really made any help-documentation with semantic HTML, and partly because I never really understood the usefulness of it. Some manuscripts will need to refe