- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <benjaminhawkeslewis@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:41:35 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Sorry, I messed up my footnotes. Correct references below: [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt [2] http://www.docbook.org/whatis [3] http://www.latex-project.org/guides/usrguide.pdf [4] (not in text) [5] http://www.nc.uk.net/nc/contents/En-2-3-POS.html#N109BF [6] http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/stats/englandstats.html#graph [7] http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/stats/adultstats.html#England [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2006Sep/0141.html [9] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/28/728654.aspx I would also like to note I was perhaps a bit unkind to include http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/14577.html in my examples of not using or misusing <blockquote>. I still think their markup is pretty atrocious: > <blockquote class="quotebig"> > <dl> > <dt>We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall > fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight > with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall > defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the > beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the > fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never > surrender.</dt> <dd class="author"><b><a > href="/quotes/Sir_Winston_Churchill/">Sir Winston Churchill</a></b>, > <i>Speech, 4. June, 1940</i><br><i>British politician (1874 - > 1965)</i></dd> > </dl> > </blockquote> However, it has a precedent in the mangling of <blockquote> by WCAG (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#text-quotes), which gives the following cringeworthy example: > <BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.example.com/loveslabourlost"> > <P>Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings. > --- William Shakespeare (Love's Labor Lost). > </P> > </BLOCKQUOTE>
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