[Bug 22996] Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations

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

--- Comment #18 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to comment #17)

> There's no need to modify <footer>. Whether or not the principle <footer> is
> actually quoted from the original source, it is bound to describe the nature
> of that content.

+1 Agree. This is not the problem.

> It is a non-issue in most cases and redundant footers can
> be omitted by authors in other cases, as they see fit, right?
> 
> Blockquote should allow <footer> to be used at the author's discretion, just
> as > <figcaption> is a discretionary inclusion. Can we agree on that?

While an “about text” could clarify the source of the very quotation,
<footer> as “about text” container may cause uncertainty w.r.t. the
source of the very annotation w.r.t. whether it stems from the same
source as the quotation itself - or from the current text.

This doubt is fuelled by the fact that the footer would change semantics
(with regard to authoringship) once it is pasted into <blockquote> - in
the original text its voice would be the same as the voice of the
section where it appears, whereas inside <blockquote>, its voice would
change to mean “the voice of the author of blockquote’s parent element”.

Also, to visually distinguish footer from quotation, the <footer> would
probably need to be styled differently when inside <blockquote> compared
when outside, and my hunch is that a styling that differs based on context
is not going to be popular amongst implementors (but may be I am wrong
in this detail).

For more, see bug 23021.

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