- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:49:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Tantek ?~Gelik wrote: > > Summary: there has been longstanding discussion about the use (or not) > of <cite> to markup names of speakers. From original intent of <cite>, > to references to the Chicago Manual of Style, to the practicality of it > just being an alias for <i>. > > [...] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Cite_element#Speaker | | The cite element has been used (and recommended to be used) to | refer to speakers in a conversation, or individuals when quoting them, | thus HTML5 should explicitly permit and encourage this use. | | [snip a number of links to pages that use <cite> in this way] This has been discussed pretty much to death in the past, including examining existing pages that do this. This proposal does not add new information to the discussion, so I haven't changed the spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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