Hello,
I am little surprised about the following:
<a href="#" ...
I found some lines about the href tag for a site should point to an
name or in XHTML to an ID,
but in both cases this seems to be not valid name="#" or id=""...
And I wonder why the online validator allow this in all cases.DOCUMENT
types.
Can someone give me a definitive link to any W3C document where I can
see this is Valid? I found only some sites where the consequence would
be this is not valid.
Peter
Apr 7 '07
16  5019  La*********@gma il.com wrote :
Hello,
I am little surprised about the following:
<a href="#" ...
You could search for the thread
Subject line: "Empty fragment identifier: <a href="#" ...>"
newsgroup: alt.html
Date posted on July 27th 2004 and replied on July 28th 2004.
I think Richard Formby's reply was best:
{
(...)
RFC1808, in section 2.2 defines in modified BNF form
"fragment = 1*pchar"
and mentions that the 1* means "[one] or more repetitions of the [pchar].
So, zero repetitions is not allowed and href="#" is therefore an error.
Since it is an error then the browser, as per the spec, is at liberty to
interperet it as the browser sees fit. There is no "correct" behaviour.
}
So, I too would recommend to stay away from href="#" and would
explicitly recommend to avoid using href="#" at all times.
Gérard
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>Hello,
I am little surprised about the following:
<a href="#" ...
You could search for the thread
Subject line: "Empty fragment identifier: <a href="#" ...>"
newsgroup: alt.html
Date posted on July 27th 2004 and replied on July 28th 2004.
I think Richard Formby's reply was best:
{
(...)
RFC1808, in section 2.2 defines in modified BNF form
"fragment = 1*pchar"
and mentions that the 1* means "[one] or more repetitions of the [pchar].
RFC2396 supersedes RFC1808, and it states that a fragment is
*uric (i.e. 0 or more uric characters) [Section 4.1, RFC2396]. Clearly
the empty string (consisting of 0 uric) is valid, although as I have
written elsewhere, that does not mean that it is necessarily useful,
meaningful, etc. The interpretation of the fragment is up to the user
agent.
So, zero repetitions is not allowed and href="#" is therefore an error.
Since it is an error then the browser, as per the spec, is at liberty to
interperet it as the browser sees fit. There is no "correct" behaviour.
}
So, I too would recommend to stay away from href="#" and would
explicitly recommend to avoid using href="#" at all times.
Gérard
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Scripsit Lars Eighner:
RFC2396 supersedes RFC1808,
and has itself been superseded. I wonder makes people keep babbling about
the issue, despite all the correct information having been given several
times in the past (in the midst of garbage as usual). The quote RFCs that
have been obsoleted many years ago (and misinterpret them).
Don't people even check RFC editor's database about the status of RFCs
before citing them??
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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
Scripsit Lars Eighner:
>RFC2396 supersedes RFC1808,
and has itself been superseded.
>
Don't people even check RFC editor's database about the status of RFCs
before citing them??
Well, this is cool. I was just wondering how anybody not actually
writing one of the RFCs would know which RFCs are current and which
obsoleted. And now I have an answer (for which, as is The Jukka Way, I
have had to make the actual effort myself).
I plugged the mystic phrase "RFC editor's database" into my nearest
search engine and out popped a list of databases which (purport to) list
current RFCs and the RFCs which replace them, their topic areas, etc.
For those even lazier than I am, http://www.rfc-editor.org/ is a place
to visit and treasure.
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Scripsit Lars Eighner:
>RFC2396 supersedes RFC1808,
and has itself been superseded.
The current 4.01 Spec cites RFC2396. nks for letting me know that
w3.org is full of shit as usual.
I wonder makes people keep babbling about
the issue,
Why does w3 cite an obsolete RFC?
despite all the correct information having been given several
times in the past (in the midst of garbage as usual).
The garbage as usual is right here:
Linkname: HTML 4 Specification References
URL: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/references.html #ref-URI>
The quote RFCs that
have been obsoleted many years ago (and misinterpret them).
Yup, I guess that is what W3 is all about.
Don't people even check RFC editor's database about the status of RFCs
before citing them??
It is W3C that did it. And as usual, relying on the current version of
a W3 spec is inviting a knife in the back.
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Gérard Talbot <ne***********@ gtalbot.orgwrit es:
I think Richard Formby's reply was best:
RFC1808, in section 2.2 defines in modified BNF form
"fragment = 1*pchar"
and mentions that the 1* means "[one] or more repetitions of the [pchar].
His reply was certainly best in the sense of entertainment, since it
provides room for speculation whether it was malicious, humorous or just
careless; citing an RFC is much like citing Don Quixote, you can usually
get away with whatever you make up on the spot, because nobody has read
it or even cares to look up particulars when mentioned.
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