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Re: 6.1: HTML5 makes the attribute "name" in hypertext anchors obsolete.
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: 6.1: HTML5 makes the attribute "name" in hypertext anchors obsolete. |
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Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:22:38 +0100 |
On 5 August 2016 at 16:59, Patrice Dumas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:33:41AM -0400, Robert Weiner wrote:
>> Just a small thing.
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>> As of Texinfo 6.1, HTML output is generating anchors like so:
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>> <a name="Smart-Keys"></a>
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>> The non-obsolete way of doing that now, compatible with HTML5 and prior
>> versions is:
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>> <a id="Smart-Keys"></a>
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> Using id instad of name leads to validation errors with the 4.01
> doctype:
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> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
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> That's because in this dtd, id type is ID which is too restrictive,
> while in html5 it is much less restricted.
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> It is possible to abandon strict validity, I guess that most if not all
> browser are ok with id with less restrictive content, but having
> something valid is also very convenient to debug the html.
That's good to know. As long as we are targetting the 4.01
transitional version, we should definitely use <a name=...> instead of
<a id=...>.
Previous discussion of this here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00056.html
I think we should have an option to output HTML 5 to help facilitate
automatic processing of the HTML file with JavaScript.