On 11-07-06 08:27 PM, Alexander wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 19:55, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chad" <[email protected]>
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> While I would not list the Mediawiki language as a 'crap' language,
>>>> I still think it is regretful that one cannot achieve the precision
>>>> of
>>>> an HTML <a name="bla"> anchor, to say, make a link to a spot
>>>> anywhere
>>>> within a page, whereas with the Mediawiki language, the best one can
>>>> do
>>>> is link to the top of a table for example,
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Chinese_phonology#Initials
>>>> instead of also to a random point within say, giant tables.
>>>>
>>> And <span id="bla"> doesn't work why?
>> You can #-link to a *span name*?  Really?
>>
>> I didn't know that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
> IIRC, all modern browsers support hash linking to any element with an id 
> attribute.
> --Alexander
Yes, in fact that's the standard. The standard has been id="" since
XHTML. HTML5 continues it, name="" is gone. Only ancient HTML4 used <a
name=""> and it's only used in obsolete browsers now.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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