- From: Philip Taylor <excors+whatwg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:09:12 +0100
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Erik Vorhes<erik at textivism.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Kristof > Zelechovski<giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote: >> I can imagine two reasons the CITE element cannot be defined as "citing >> whom": >> ?1. Existing tools may assume it contains a title. > > Existing tools (which I would assume follow the HTML 4.01 spec) would > be mistaken in their implementation of the <cite> element, then: > "CITE: Contains a citation or reference to other sources." (See > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1>.) Moreover, in > its sample usage, the HTML 4.01 spec uses <cite> for more than titles. In practical usage it seems to be used for more than titles: <http://philip.html5.org/data/cite.txt>. (But I haven't tried working out what else it is used for, or how commonly it's used for titles.) -- Philip Taylor excors at gmail.com
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