[html5] Author of a quote - how to mark up?

[Luis-Miguel Rodríguez Rojas]

>
> <p><span class='author'>Douglas Crockford</span> writes in
> <cite>Javascript: The Good 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>


- AND -

<p><author id="douglas-crockford">Douglas Crockford</author> writes in
> <cite 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>


Are both displayed (without any further advantage on CSS or JavaScript, for
example) as:

Douglas Crockford writes in ‘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.’


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.


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bw3c at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Samer Ziadeh<samerziadeh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > There are tons of HTML elements out there and so many of them are barely
> > used by authors. Adding an extra elements such as "author" wouldn't hurt
> > anyone, isn't hard to implement, and only take a line to explain what it
> > does.
>
> If concrete use-cases were not required for new elements, the number
> of elements in HTML would be ridiculous.  I think it would be pretty
> easy to come up with twenty to fifty elements that are about as
> reasonable or useful as a generic <author> tag.  What's the point?  It
> would just be bloat.  This is why we have the class attribute, and
> microdata.  Why not use the existing mechanisms for marking up content
> if you don't have a specific reason to ask for a whole new element?
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