[whatwg] whatwg Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13

FROIDURE Nicolas froidure_nicolas at yahoo.fr
Sat Jan 6 00:58:02 PST 2007


>
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>   
> Another problem is providing citations for a sequence of blockquotes
> when none of them have URI sources to put in the 'cite' attribute.
> I might have a favorite quotes page, for example. Does it really make
> sense that an isolated blockquote in someone's blog gets defined
> semantics for its <cite><blockquote> pair but the blockquotes on my
> /quotes page/ don't?
>
> Another problem is, how do I present a list of quotes attributed to
> one person? E.g.
>    My Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain
>      * ...
>      * ...
>      * ...
> There's no way to mechanically associate the quotes with Mark Twain.
>
> ~fantasai
>   
Why not creating something like already exists for forms ?
Here are 3 quotations of <cite id="author">Martin Luther King</cite> :
<blockquote cite="#author">   (...)     </blockquote>
<blockquote cite="#author">   (...)     </blockquote>
 <p>And the sentence i prefer is : <q cite="#author">   (...)     </q></p>



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