- From: daniel.glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:42:54 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>
On 2013-08-15 13:30, Heydon Pickering wrote:
> I'm writing to propose the deprecation of the <blockquote> element in
> favour of a slight modification to author advice regarding the
> <figure> and corresponding <figcaption> elements.
>
> The problem with <blockquote>
I am opposed to that proposal for many reasons (excuse the
brevity of my prose, I'm away with very limited connectivity
and I decided to step in because of the huge impact on my editor
BlueGriffon):
1. <blockquote> is mainstream. Nobody can say it's unused. Blogs
use it all over the place, news web sites use it efficiently
and with correct semantics.
2. <blockquote> is implemented by _all_ wysiwyg content editors.
3. an unperfect technology used by billions of web sites may be
unperfect AND still be successful. I doubt people are going to
change behaviour because they obey to twenty years old habits
and blog systems/editors/filters won't change easily.
4. email user agents rely heavily on <blockquote> when one replies
to a message.
</Daniel>
Received on Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:43:17 UTC