- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:58:59 +0200
Ian Hickson wrote: > That's the problem. Would abusing <cite> for this be acceptable? Do we > need another element? I think that would be acceptable. Although I wonder if CITE would still be the right name... Can you still use CITE for persons in that case? <p><cite>John E. Simpson</cite> said in <cite>XPath and XPointer</cite>: <q>...</q></p> > I don't particularly plan on ever linking to a urn:, since the likelihood > of their being successfully dereferenced is extremely low. I don't think > that's really a workable solution. It is also not really backwards compatible. (However, you already linked to a URN once using the CITE attribute on a BLOCKQUOTE...) >>>yet there is something very different about that one -- it's the title >>>of another work. I'd like to be able to style all such titles >>>consistently, so they have to be marked up in some way. >> >>In that case, would you want to differentiate between ordinary titles >>and real citations? Or is that something that the class attribute could >>handle, if needed? > > I don't know. What do people think? See above. >>> 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? If we go with something like a TYPE attribute, I hope we can give it a better name. However, hiding semantics inside the value of an attribute is a poor markup design in humble opinion. (Although it also has some advantages.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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