<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/6 Hugh Guiney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hugh.guiney@gmail.com">hugh.guiney@gmail.com</a>></span><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 Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Erik Vorhes <<a href="mailto:erik@textivism.com">erik@textivism.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I suppose <a> allows for more functionality in current UAs, but this<br>
> is an interesting proposition, especially if there were a way to<br>
> crosslink <cite> used in this way to the original source (or whatever<br>
> it would point to). Would it be something along the lines of <cite<br>
> for="aside-id">, or did you have something else in mind?<br>
<br>
</div>How about <cite cite="uri">, as it would have been in XHTML 2?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I don't know about others, but that just looks ugly to me (the repetition of 'cite' looks unnecessary). I know elegance isn't crucial, but given the choice between <cite for=""> and <cite cite=""> I'd go for the former.<br>
<br>As a possibility though, <cite> could have a 'for' attribute in the same manner as a label and also support a 'src' attribute to link the element to the original source, giving:<br><cite for="aside-id" src="uri"><br>
What browsers do with the src attribute can be decided later, but it could easily be used as a more semantically meaningful <a> tag where appropriate.<br>