- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:59:00 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Dão Gottwald wrote: > > Mike Schinkel schrieb: >> >> 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? >> #1 - >> http://mindblogging.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/i_just_might_ne.html >> #2 - >> http://www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.org/2007/04/10/the-vernon-jones-circus/ >> >> #3 - >> http://spaceygreview.blogspot.com/2007/03/atlanta-woman-refused-emergency.html >> > > 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, What are they quoting? If #1 is quoting, she is quoting herself. If you believe that to be the case then you must take to the logical conclusion that <p> elements are quotes as well, because they are quoting themselves too. As for #2, you just looked at it quickly, you didn't actually read the article it was linked to. It was a summary, not a quote. (And yes, a <summary> element would be better than an <indent>, but what default presentation will it have?) As for #3, I don't see how you can view that as a quote, please explain. Honestly, from context I can't figure out what exactly this would be categorized as except something the author wanted to indent, which would argue for <indent>. That said, can any better categorize this use? Event? > as it still would be misinterpreted (at least by me). What would you misinterpret it to be? In my proposal <indent> would carry no meaning at all. -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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