[whatwg] <cite> versus |cite|

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Jan 15 02:57:36 PST 2007


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:12:37 +0100, Matthew Raymond  
<mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
>    Well, first of all, it doesn't cover cases without hyperlinks:
>
> | <p><q>Blah</q>, said Baz</p>

I don't think that case is very interesting.


> [...]
>
> As for |source| versus |cite|, I see two problems. First is that the
> attributes are so similar that they could get easily confused. Second is
> that "source" is essentially the long form of "src", which may cause
> even more confusion:

So name it something else. "linkedfrom" was at one point suggested on IRC.


> [...]


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Anne van Kesteren
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