- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:47:06 +0200
- To: "Murray Maloney" <murray@muzmo.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:03:41 +0200, Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com> wrote: > A BLOCKQUOTE is a distinguished paragraph. Visually, right? > It is presentational markup in the same sense that <P> and <OL> are > presentational markup. Which elements are <p> and <ol>'s inline equivalents? > And I support the existence of that class of presentational markup for > documents on the Web. <blockquote> would make sense if there were only block-level quotes. But there aren't. There's also inline quotes and their difference is only significant on the presentational level. > Using the same element inline and as a block is confusing. Not at all. CSS authors do this *all the time* with <li> for example, to make a menu present itself horizontally instead of vertically. > Besides which, BLOCKQUOTE is legacy HTML. I can't see how that's relevant, really. -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- asbjorn@ulsberg.no «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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