[thelist] Netscape 6 loads page twice

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>>It's partly a question of conservatism: web developers don't change their
>>scripts if it isn't necessary (if browsers continue to support NAME), so
>>browsers can't ignore NAMEs or else the scripts won't work any more.
>>
>>So I don't think NAMEs are on the way out, they'll stay with us for a long
>>time to come. And why not?
>
>And XHTML? the trans accepts the name attribute, but the strict does not so
>are we being coaxed into dropping it despite all the support?

Since the point is that people want to use NAMEs, they'll use XHTML Trans. 
Should the W3C once again forbid NAMEs then many people (including me) will 
go on using them anyway, and Too Bad for the validators.

It's not a question of what the specs say but of what you want to do.

ppk

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