- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:31:01 -0400
Ian Hickson wrote: >>>Movie titles are similar. I'd like my UA to give me a tooltip >>>containing information from IMDB for every movie title. With user >>>JavaScript I can do this, if there's a way to recognise movie titles. >> >>Then would you want different markup for book titles, movie titles, play >>titles, song titles, etc? Or would you just expect the script to search >>IMDB for anything marked up with <cite>? > > Again, I don't really know. I could see a use case for a "type" attribute > (as was suggested earlier in this thread), but that seems like a slippery > slope. Suggestions? You will need a type attribute of some kind if you are to handle the different typographic conventions for e.g. books vs. articles. Book titles are italicized: article titles are put in quotes. Parallel distinctions exist for other types of creative works. ~fantasai
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