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

[Samer Ziadeh]

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.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 18:55, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Samer Ziadeh wrote:
> >
> > it helps marking up authors in a standard way that if needed it can be
> > retrieved easily, as opposed to having different web authors marking it
> > up their own way.
> >
> > It could be used to markup authors of a quote, books, blog posts, etc...
>
> When would you so retrieve an author?
>
> Would you also ever need to retrieve, say, colour names? Or names of
> ships? Or town names? Or prices? Or mortgage rates?
>
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