- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@miscoranda.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 17:41:24 +0100
- To: ACJ <ego@acjs.net>
- Cc: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM, ACJ <ego@acjs.net> wrote: > This is easily realized with the use of an extra container element. But in 1993, you couldn't choose the style. What I meant is that there was already a minimal implementation for quoting blocks of text, and you didn't have to introduce anything into html.dtd v.1.2 for that. Of course there are endless typographical abilities that could, and often were, added to HTML subsequently. That says nothing about which were most valuable. You say that BLOCKQUOTE adds semantic value. Well all kinds of things could add semantic value to HTML: take the things added latter, or much of the stuff in DOCBOOK and TEI and so forth. That doesn't explain why BLOCKQUOTE specifically was added, nor why it was added when it was. -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/
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