- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:52:35 +0300
- To: public-html@w3.org
2013-08-19 11:58, Steve Faulkner wrote: > I have made some data available: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/html5bq/index.html > > [...] > > > observations: > > * blockquote usage from these pages appears to be largely for its > intended use. > How did you infer that? A quick look at five first examples suggests the opposite. Blockquote is used for "setting apart" (with indentation) important passages, and only casually for something that could be regarded as a quotation from an external source. Perhaps you counted the use of blockquote for blog and forum entries as being "for its intended use". In such cases, there is normally no external source where the text could have been quoted. A visitor's contribution is not a quotation (though it could be quoted elsewhere, referring to the blog or forum as source). In any case, blockquote is far too established to be removed or changed. Its real effect is to set default margins on all sides, and the HTML5 CR more or less standardizes this. Everything else is really just talk about principles that people should apply when using this element, which is rather idle, unless there are some real projects going on, aiming at doing something based on some "semantic" definition for blockquote. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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