[Wikipedia-l] Anchors in table of contents on Wikipedia pages

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/19 Robert Chin <robert.chin at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> <nemowiki at 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.