[Bug 22996] Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22996

--- Comment #8 from heydon <heydon@heydonworks.com> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I have done some digging:
> 
> I have made some data available:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/html5bq/index.html
> 
> This is an index of 318 pages which use the HTML5 doctype and include
> blockquote elements (and sometimes cite elements). The sample pages were
> drawn from the raw data from March 2012 (121Mb
> http://webdevdata.org/data/data.zip). Consisting of approximately 8000 home
> pages from the top 10,000 most popular web sites.
> 
> I have added styles to blockquote and cite elements so that they are easily
> identifiable when viewing the page.
> 
> There is also grep output for the indexed pages:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/blockquote.html
> 
> 
> observations:
> 
>     blockquote usage from these pages appears to be largely for its intended
> use.
>     it is common for the attribution to be included within the blockquote
>     when <cite> is used it is common for it to be included inside the
> blockquote element
>     when <cite> is used it is common for it to be used for attributing a
> quote to a person
>     10 pages included use of the cite attribute
>     5 pages used footer inside blockquote for attribution


Thank you, Steve, that's great.

Just looking at the grep, I'm seeing uses of <cite> in <footer> as well as just
<footer>.

Some of the more cautious appear to be using things like the below example

<p id="quote-source"> Dan Salvador, CEO, Mainline </p>

Obviously, this is suboptimal and precisely the kind of thing that authors
should feel they can avoid (as addressed by this bug).

:-)

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Received on Monday, 19 August 2013 09:36:37 UTC