How would it be different from the target attribute as it now works?

Steven Pemberton

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> 
> Has there been any talk of adding a @show attribute, similar to the one 
> defined by XLink[1] (maybe only with "new" and "replace" as accepted 
> values), to the <a/> element? I think it is natural for the author of a 
> document to specify whether a hyperlink target deviates from the flow of 
> the document. Adding @show only to <a/> would make its role clearer, and 
> justify <a/> being in the spec at all.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/#show-att 
>