224310 - <a name=""> recognised as anchor

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029 Firebird/0.7+

XHTML 1.1 does not include the name attribute for <a>; it is deprecated in
favour of id. (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes )

When an XHTML 1.1 page is rendered in standards-compliance mode, <a name="">
anchors are still recognised.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/#ctc

Actual Results:  
Firebird shows the page with the "anchor" at the top of the screen

Expected Results:  
Firebird should show the top of the page

I've emailed David Tenser to point out his (incorrect) use of name=, so the page
may soon use id= instead.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The page is being served as text/html, which means it goes through the regular
HTML parser, which of course accepts "name."

The page is being served invalidly is the heart of the problem.  XHTML 1.1
should only be served as application/xhtml+xml.

->Invalid.