- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:26:12 -0400
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Erik Vorhes <erik at textivism.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley at gmail.com> wrote: >> I also propose allowing parenthetical citations and footnote markers >> (as is used in the various W3C/WHATWG specifications) to also be >> marked up with <cite>, though I'm not sure if TabAtkins agrees with me >> on that point. > > I suppose <a> allows for more functionality in current UAs, but this > is an interesting proposition, especially if there were a way to > crosslink <cite> used in this way to the original source (or whatever > it would point to). Would it be something along the lines of <cite > for="aside-id">, or did you have something else in mind? > > Erik Hmm... I hadn't given much thought to the implementation of that, as I was more worried about the other part of the debate, but I think treating <cite> as analogous to <label> in that situation is indeed a good idea. -- Gordon P. Hemsley me at gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ ? http://gphemsley.org/blog/ http://sasha.sourceforge.net/ ? http://www.yoursasha.com/
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