Personally I agree with Luis. I can see some styling things where an authors name would be offset to the bottom-right of a quote, etc., but I don't really see the value in using an extra element to serve this purpose. Styling an author item would be no less intuitive if it was done with a span than it would be with this proposed author element. If we're just providing more specific elements without adding new functionality, I don't see the point.<div>
<br></div><div>On the other hand, I wouldn't mind <author> if some kind of new functionality was provided. The author link type serves as an example, and I believe something like that makes much more sense, because it specifies who is the author of the parent article/page. If something of equivalent value could be developed for the author element, I'd be all for it.<br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/13 Luis-Miguel Rodríguez Rojas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmrodriguezr@gmail.com">lmrodriguezr@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span class='author'>Douglas Crockford</span> writes in <cite>Javascript: The Good <span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Parts</cite>: <q>Deep down, Javascript has more in common with Lisp and Scheme than with Java. It is Lisp in C’s clothing.</q></p></span></blockquote>
</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">- AND -</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p><author id="douglas-crockford">Douglas Crockford</author> writes in <cite <span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">id="douglas-crockford-javascript-the-good-parts" author="#douglas-crockford">Javascript: The Good Parts</cite>: <q cite="#douglas-crockford-javascript-the-good-parts">Deep down, Javascript has more in common with Lisp and Scheme than with Java. It is Lisp in C’s clothing.</q></p></span></blockquote>
</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Are both displayed (without any further advantage on CSS or JavaScript, for example) as:</span></font></div>
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Douglas Crockford writes in ‘Javascript: The Good Parts’: ‘Deep down, <span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Javascript has more in common with Lisp and Scheme than with Java. It is Lisp in C’s clothing.’</span></blockquote>
</div><div><br><div>Therefore, what's the point to create <author>? Many new elements can be proposed if we think in search engines as main scope. However, search engines must search for what people see in websites, not vice versa. As Google itself recommends, make your site for people, not for search engines.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Simetrical%2Bw3c@gmail.com" target="_blank">Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Samer Ziadeh<<a href="mailto:samerziadeh@gmail.com" target="_blank">samerziadeh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> There are tons of HTML elements out there and so many of them are barely<br>
> used by authors. Adding an extra elements such as "author" wouldn't hurt<br>
> anyone, isn't hard to implement, and only take a line to explain what it<br>
> does.<br>
<br>
</div>If concrete use-cases were not required for new elements, the number<br>
of elements in HTML would be ridiculous. I think it would be pretty<br>
easy to come up with twenty to fifty elements that are about as<br>
reasonable or useful as a generic <author> tag. What's the point? It<br>
would just be bloat. This is why we have the class attribute, and<br>
microdata. Why not use the existing mechanisms for marking up content<br>
if you don't have a specific reason to ask for a whole new element?<br>
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