On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Chin, 18/09/2009 04:34:
Is it a mistake that the Wikipedia pages now no
longer contain normal
<a name=""> tags for anchors, instead only providing the name via id?
If I remember correctly they have been recently removed to save space
given the assumption that almost all readers have a sufficiently recent
browser.
Do you know who I might be able to contact about this change? It seems
like they ought to be able to use <a class="mw-headline"
name="">
rather than <span class="mw-headline" id="">. Although I guess
someone
probably already thought in depth about this change.
I believe the standards now say not to use <a> for anchors, just for
links. Wikipedia is now following the standard for anchors, which is
supported by all reasonably modern browsers. Just upgrade your
browser, it is inconceivable that there is any good reason to still be
using Netscape 4.