Hyperlinks which use objects

[ajtruckle]

Hi

Warning in line 113 at character 15: The "a" tag contains no link text. Though it is not technically required, it is recommended that all "a" elements contain appropriate link text or an appropriate element, like "img".

I realise this is not a problem. I just wanted to discuss it. The home page has a few animations that act as buttons. So the buttons are the actual hyperlinks. But when you hover the mouse over such buttons they do not change the status bar text. So I wrapped the flash buttons in a tags. Example:

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      <a href="category.php?categoryid=1">
         <object id="lounge" class="flashAnim" data="flash/1_lounge_v3.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
            <param name="movie" value="flash/1_lounge_v3.swf" />
            <param name="quality" value="High" />
            <param name="play" value="false" />
            <param name="loop" value="false" />
            <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
         </object></a>   

I don't want to start supressing warning messages because it is not clear to me if they are supressed within the context of a given site rather than across all projects.

Andrew

[Albert Wiersch]

Hi Andrew,

Messages are suppressed across all sites and projects. It is not site-specific suppression.

It does seem like this message should not be generated if the "a" element contains "object" (like it isn't if it contains "img"). Does this sound good? If no one sees any issues with this, then I will suppress this message if it contains an "object" element.

[ajtruckle]

You have my vote.

[Albert Wiersch]

You have my vote.

OK! Sounds good. This change should be in the next v10 BETA.