Re: ensuring the existence & enhancing the power of Q

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:39:37 +0200, Dao Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>  
wrote:

>> <quote> element that has this functionality out of the box as well as  
>> being able to replace <blockquote>?
>
> Replace <blockquote>? What for?

Please read Gregory J. Rosmaita's e-mail about it. I agree with him  
wholehartedly in that <blockquote> is so abused today and only differs  
 from <q> (or a new <quote> element) on a presentational level, not at all  
on a semantic one.

> Actually, I'd rather introduce <blockcode>, because that's really
> missing.

Let's get <blockspan>, <blockstrong>, <blockem>, <blockimg>, <blockins>,  
<blockdel>, <blockinput>, <blocklabel>, <blocksup>, <blocksub>, and  
<blockvar> as well, then. If <blockcode> and <blockquote> really are that  
semantically different from their inline cousins, then all of the other  
inline elements should have block-level equivalents as well, don't you  
agree?

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