What is the point having HREF?

Question

Whats the point of HREF if this could be just <a="url">Url</a> Would save some typing and size :)

Answer 1

Every HTML tag has its attributes. Attributes hold some value.
a = HTML tag
href = attribute
url = value

So, if you remove 'href', your syntax is not correct then :)

Answer 2

What I saying is: if <a href= is always constant. So it never changes right? They could make it shorter. It's like having <b img. Seems pointless really.