Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 04:46 AM

So, What Does "HREF" Stand For, Anyway?

Today it occurred to me that, after a little over ten years of basic fluency in HTML, I have absolutely no idea why the href attribute is named “href”. Why not “url”, “link”, or even just “ref”?

worldwidewords.org / Friday, April 04, 2008 at 01:10 AM

To a T

“… tittle is easily the most likely source, since to a tittle was in use in exactly the same sense for nearly a century before to a T appeared (it’s first recorded in a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher of 1607) …”