There are more useless elements in the specifications, than this one. The 'author' tag would be used more often than 'ruby', or 'meter' and they made it to the specs.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:55, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">ian@hixie.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Samer Ziadeh wrote:<br>
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> it helps marking up authors in a standard way that if needed it can be<br>
> retrieved easily, as opposed to having different web authors marking it<br>
> up their own way.<br>
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> It could be used to markup authors of a quote, books, blog posts, etc...<br>
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</div>When would you so retrieve an author?<br>
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Would you also ever need to retrieve, say, colour names? Or names of<br>
ships? Or town names? Or prices? Or mortgage rates?<br>
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