- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:49:17 +0300
- To: Heydon Pickering <heydon@heydonworks.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Heydon Pickering <heydon@heydonworks.com> wrote: > I'm writing to propose the deprecation of the <blockquote> element Way too broadly used to be deprecated or obsoleted. > Without a dedicated element, how are parsers supposed to know which contents > of the <blockquote> are the quotation itself and which contents are _about_ > the quotation? They don't need to. Semantics on that level of detail don't matter. If semantics of that level of detail fall in the forest, no one is there to hear it. See the opening quote at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/producing-xml/ . That level of markup is fine. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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