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Charles Johnson11/20/2013 5:49:50 pm PST

re: #65 dog philosopher

“a href” strikes me as pretty poor API design anyway - the abbreviations are nerdacious and out of date

a == “anchor”

href == “hypertext reference”

and don’t conform to the principle of self documenting code anymore…

i think better choices, that would conform to the current familiar nomenclature, would be ‘link’ and ‘url’

That tag goes back to the very beginnings of HTML. It was created by pure nerds, living in their own world.

And now it’s everywhere. Too late to change it.