Re: bug in href or toc?

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:56:56PM +0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
> ...
> >  <h3><a name="ToC4"></a><a href="http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de">Fujitsu</a>:
> >  Lifebook Biblo B-2130</h3>
> > 
> > IIRC this construct (i.e. an empty <a> tag) was avoided because older
> > Netscape did not recognize them as anchors.
> > Maybe it is time to leave such workarounds behind and deal with decent
> > browsers.  Comments?
> For me I just have removed this constructs ;-)
> >From my stats Netscape <= 4.x isn't used very much (app. 7%).
> What about filling the empty <a> tag with &nbsp; ? As used
> in table cells to avoid some ugly looking empty cells.

This is indeed a common workaround, and fit with Petr's suggestion to
make modules more flexible.
For instance (not tested) current implementation could be written as
  <define-tag toc:anchor endtag=required whitespace=delete>
  <preserve name />
  <set-var %attributes />
  <defvar name "ToC<get-var __TOCCNT/>" />
  <a name="<get-var name />">%body</a>
  <restore name />
  </define-tag>
and redefined by
  <define-tag toc:anchor endtag=required whitespace=delete>
  <preserve name />
  <set-var %attributes />
  <defvar name <get-var __TOCCNT/> />
  <a name="<get-var name />">&nbsp;</a>%body
  <restore name />
  </define-tag>

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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