- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:41:23 -0700
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Apr 2, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > > PRECIS: proposed, that the Q element use the "src" attribute to point > to a target document, and redefine the "cite" attribute of Q to > provide human-comprehensible bibliographic information; this would > bring Q's attribute set in harmony with the use of the "src" element > as a actionable target and the redefinition of the "cite" attribute > to provide a human-readable citation, in harmony with the CITE > element. > > ========================================= > PROPOSED ATTRIBUTE SET FOR THE Q ELEMENT: > ========================================= > > a) reuse the SRC attribute in the same manner as it is used elsewhere > in the HTML/XHTML spec - as a pointer to a specific target; > > b) redefine the CITE attribute to bring it in line with the > conventional semantic meaning of citation, which is to say, > provenance, > author, edition/iteration, etc. This is gratuitously incompatible with HTML4.01, where the Q element's CITE attribute is a URI. I don't think "harmony" justifies breaking compatibility. Regards, Maciej
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