Re: Proposal for the deprecation of <blockquote>

FYI
use of cite as you do is one of the things I have been reviewing in light
of usage and various discussions.

feel free to put forward a proposal

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 15 August 2013 17:32, Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com> wrote:

> On 15 August 2013 17:17, Heydon Pickering <heydon@heydonworks.com> wrote:
> > I'm not at all convinced about the use of <cite> as a means of
> attribution
> > for quotations. The <cite> element is already notoriously misunderstood
> > and it would take a specification change just to make it an applicable
> > element. This is even before we begin to cludge together the relationship
> > between
> > <blockquote> and <cite>.
>
> I'd always used
>
> <blockquote>
> <p>Lawks a lawdy, my bottom's on fire!</p>
> <cite>Joan of Arc</cite>
> </blockquote>
>
> but Hixie was adamant that HTML5 shouldn't be backwardsly compatible
> with HTML4, which allowed names as well as works to be <cite>d.
>
> But as no conformance checker can check it, and I find the restriction
> unnecessary, I continue to use this pattern,
>
>