Mind telling us where you 'actually' got that source code, because taking
a look at that page and the facts your point seams to have as much
substance as css in lynx.
Looking at that Oaxtepc page I see:
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span
id="coordinates"><a
href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate
system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks
nourlexpansion"><a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Oaxtepec&…
class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps,
aerial photos, and
other data for this location"><span
class="latitude">18°54′N</span> <span
class="longitude">98°58′W</span></span></span><span
class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span
class="geo-nondefault"><span
class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this
location">18.9°N 98.967°W</span><span style="display:none">
/ <span
class="geo">18.9;
-98.967</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
There is no <a id="coordinates">, it's a span.
Taking a look at the history of that template:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Coord/display/title&…
It's been a span since the template was created, not an <a>.
And to top it off your argument seams to completely forget one really,
really, really, important fact...
We don't permit WikiText to output <a> tags without a href, or with any
custom attributes!
And since we don't allow raw text on Wikipedia, there's no way that
WikiText on Wikipedia can output a <a id="coordinates">.
;) Oh, and w3m gives me the same source code.
;) w3m-emacs gives me the same result.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:18:42 -0800, <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> wrote:
Why the two layers of <a> even if it passes
$ validate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxtepec
*** Errors validating Oaxtepec: ***
Error at line 2, character 33: there is no attribute "class"
Error at line 152, character 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished
Error at line 177, character 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished
Why the </a> halfway through the first pair of
Coordinates: 18°54′N 98°58′W / 18.9°N 98.967°W / 18.9; -98.967
Why does it look fine in some browsers but ah-ha caught you in emacs-w3m?
Could it be that Firefox and Chromium are fooled into thinking that the
outer <a id...> which lasts through the whole six coordinates should
render as a clickable link... which it apparently does even with
stylesheets off. Only emacs-w3m renders it right, revealing the badly
written HTML!
Here's the code,
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a
id="coordinates"><a
href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate
system">Coordinates</a>: <span class="plainlinks
nourlexpansion"><a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Oaxtepec&…
class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps,
aerial photos,
and other data for this location"><span
class="latitude">18°54′N</a>
<span
class="longitude">98°58′W</span></span></span><span
class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span
class="geo-nondefault"><span
class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this
location">18.9°N 98.967°W</span><span
style="display:none"> / <span
class="geo">18.9;
-98.967</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></p>