- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:42:16 +1300
On Jan 7, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > At 20:12 +0100 UTC, on 2007-01-03, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > ... >> Well, the reason I started this thread was to provide a replacement / >> alternative to the cite="" attribute as defined for the <blockquote> >> and <q> elements using some terminology the HTML5 proposal already >> provided. Mostly to make the metadata more "visual". > > It's still entirely unclear to me *why* the cite attribute needs a > replacement. What is wrong with it? > ... First, it's hard for UAs to present cite= in a way that is both usable and backward compatible. (Just changing a cursor isn't discoverable enough. Putting any extra button etc in the page might mess up page layouts, though it might work if it was placed in-line at the end of the quote.) Second, it's hard for authors to use it in a way that is backward-compatible. That is, if the source information is important enough that it needs to be accessible in those UAs that don't (yet) support cite=, the author has to provide the information in some other fashion too. And third, it requires the existence of an IRI of some sort. Often you won't have this, for example when the source information for your quote is something as vague as "attributed to Mark Twain". (None of this is new, just a summary of what I understand from the discussion so far. I'm still thinking about alternative markup.:-) Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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