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Bug 5567 - Add "name" attributes to anchors to support older browsers
Add "name" attributes to anchors to support older browsers
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Cite (Other open bugs)
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All All
: Lowest minor with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/C...
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Reported: 2006-04-14 06:47 UTC by omniplex
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description omniplex 2006-04-14 06:47:41 UTC
JFTR, as noted on the "issues" page:

Missing name= anchors for backwards compatibility 
    The generated <a href="#_note-n"> links should have a name="_ref-n". 
    The generated <a href="#_ref-n"> links should have a name="_note-n".

Legacy browsers have no clue what and "id" might be, they
want an equivalent "name". Where that's impossible it's a
case of "you lose", but cite apparently has the necessary
anchors to add the missing "name" for old browsers. It's
also recommended in the XHTML 1.0 standard appendix C.8.
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-12-16 20:15:32 UTC
The id's are currently not on <a> elements.  They're also used for some things, like highlighting the targeted <li> on enwiki.  Probably not worth it to fix this.
Comment 2 Nicholas Wilson 2008-12-31 22:08:40 UTC
The patch for bug 16294 can trivially fix this, since we write out anchor elements directly, allowing easy duplication of ids as names. This bug becomes a one-minute job of the patch there goes through.
Comment 3 Chad H. 2009-07-29 19:00:21 UTC
Marking WONTFIX. Name has been deprecated in HTML5, and id works on 99% of browsers out there. Name back-compat was only needed for Netscape (4?), so it's not really an issue anymore.

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