Re: argument for deprecating BLOCKQUOTE in canonical HTML/XHTML

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:05:22 +0200, Robert Brodrecht <w3c@robertdot.org>  
wrote:
>>> Because stuff can be quoted inline and across blocks. If QUOTE is
>>> inline, you can't wrap block-level content without violating the spec.
>>
>> Why do you have to constrain it?
>
> I don't think *he* is constraining it.  The spec, traditionally, is.  I
> can think of no element that is both structurally inline and structurally
> block at the same time (ignoring TD/TH, which is a weird case and not the
> same as the suggested <quote>-as-block-and-inline examples).  There is no
> precedent for it.

<ins> and <del> would be precedents. They're a pain to style though in the  
non "inline" case.


It's still not really clear why we so badly need a new element here.  
<blockquote> has been abused sure, but that goes for <table>, <img> et  
cetera as well. Creating a new element doesn't automatically make authors  
not abuse it. Besides, browsers have to retain support for <blockquote>  
and <q> indefinitely (and thus we need to figure out how they need to  
interoperably support them) and authors are already being "trained" to use  
those elements by standardistas.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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Received on Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:56:51 UTC