Re: Proposing <indent> vs. <blockquote>

If there was some context where specific indents were required for correct
semantic meaning, couldn't the  <pre> tag be used for that? If there is no
semantic meaning, CSS should definitely be used. I cannot see how <indent>
would be useful.

On 4/16/07, Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de> wrote:
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> Mike Schinkel schrieb:
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> > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> >> Other than in Mike's own work, I can't recall ever seeing <blockquote>
> >> misused for indentation in social media. Can anyone point to some
> >> recent (say past 6 months) examples of this in the wild?
> > http://mindblogging.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/i_just_might_ne.html
> >
> http://www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.org/2007/04/10/the-vernon-jones-circus/
> >
> http://spaceygreview.blogspot.com/2007/03/atlanta-woman-refused-emergency..html
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> These look like quotes to me. If that was the intent, fine. If it
> wasn't, the problem would be that the styling conflicts with the actual
> meaning, and <indent> wouldn't solve that, as it still would be
> misinterpreted (at least by me).
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> > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030210.html
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> That would be a use case for <aside>, <legend> or even better <summary>
> (don't know if that was ever proposed.)
>
> --Dao
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