- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:26:20 +0000
On 7/14/11, Kevin Marks <kevinmarks at gmail.com> wrote: > There is another common pattern, seen in blogging a lot, of putting > the citation at the top eg > As <cite class="vcard"><a href="http://www.gyford.com/phil/" > class="url" rel="acquaintance met colleague"><abbr title="Phil Gyford" > class="fn">Phil</abbr></a></cite> wrote about the <a > href="http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2009/04/28/geocities.php">ugly > and neglected fragments</a> of Geocities:</p> > > <blockquote> > <p>GeoCities is an awful, ugly, decrepit mess. And this is why it > will be sorely missed. It?s not only a fine example of the amateur web > vernacular but much of it is an increasingly rare example of a > <em>period</em> web vernacular. GeoCities sites show what normal, > non-designer, people will create if given the tools available around > the turn of the millennium.</p> > </blockquote> > > (from jeremy) or pretty much any post here: > > http://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/ > > Would a <header> pattern in the blockquote work for this? > > If I was writing a detector for this pattern, <a> followed by a colon > and <blockquote> would do it pretty reliably... > Ideally, the same markup should be used to mark citations up whether they're displayed one way or another. Whether to render author name(s) before or after the quotation is a matter of style.
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