[whatwg] <cite> versus |cite|

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Fri Jan 12 04:17:16 PST 2007


On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:51:05 +0100, Matthew Raymond  
<mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
>    Well, why not overload the |cite| attribute so that it's valid to use
> the URL for a <cite> element? Example:
>
> | <p>
> |   <q cite="#Hixie">How times have changed</q>, said
> |   <cite id="Hixie">
> |     <a href="http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1163122250&count=1">
> |       Ian
> |     </a>
> |   </cite>.
> | </p>

How about:

   <p><q source=foo>Blah</q>, said <a href=... id=foo>Baz</a></p>


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Anne van Kesteren
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