- From: Jason A. Lefkowitz <jason@jasonlefkowitz.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:12:27 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > How is a blockquote distinguished aurally and semantically in a way > that can't be conveyed through visual and/or aural style sheets? From a semantic perspective, at least, it's distinguished in the sense that it's a block of text that wasn't written and hence isn't "owned" by the document's author, whereas <p>s, <ol>s etc. all encapsulate content that was. That's a non-presentational distinction (though you could use presentational rules to communicate it to the reader, as many authors do by styling <blockquote>). -- Jason -- Jason A. Lefkowitz web: http://www.jasonlefkowitz.net email: jason@jasonlefkowitz.net "A statesman... is a dead politician. Lord knows, we need more statesmen." -- Bloom County
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