- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:07:09 +0200
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi> schrieb am Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:09:54 +0300: > 15.07.2011 19:56, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > [?] > > > > But browsers need to be told that that number close to the quotation > > is an ISBN. > > The string ?ISBN? is sufficient evidence of that. Someone would need to standardize ?ISBN sniffing behaviour? for UAs then. Could you make a proposal? > [?] > > > @cite contains > > an URI, that an user agent might be able to use in an automated > > fashion. > > Might be able, but doesn?t. Can you mention one browser that actually > does something useful with it? And it isn?t a particularly new > feature in specifications; browser vendors have had plenty of time to > implement it. Are any reasons for not doing anything with that information known? Probably a more basic issue: Is the cite attribute actually used? > > <Cite> contains a human-readable name of a work. That'll > > rarely be machine-readable. > > HTML documents are always machine-readable. (Well, you _might_ just > write HTML on a paper with a pen?) This is a category error. ?Machine-readable? in this context does not mean ?digital information?. Fact: A scanned PDF of a printed out table of expenses (yes, these occur) may not be ?machine-readable? in the sense Bjartur Thorlacius used here. An ATOM feed certainly is. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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