[whatwg] Patterns of well-known quotes sites
Karl Dubost
karld at opera.com
Sun Feb 12 14:38:38 PST 2012
I was wondering what were the patterns of quotes Web sites.
Searching for quotes in DuckDuckGo and taking them one by one.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=quotes
Not exhaustive, but done a few. It is… :) well see by yourself.
# The Quotations page
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34200.html
## Pattern:
<blockquote class="quotebig">
<dl>
<dt>[TXT]</dt>
<dd class="author"><b><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a></b><br>
<i>[AUTHORQUALIFICATION] ([BIRTHDATE] - [DEATHDATE])</i></dd>
</dl>
</blockquote>
# Brainy Quote
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_age.html
## Pattern:
<div class="quotecontent">
<span class="body">[TXT]</span><br>
<span class="bodybold"><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a></span><br><br>
… then next quote
# QuoteLand
http://www.quoteland.com/
## Pattern
(awful markup, had to cleanup a bit to see the pattern)
See http://www.quoteland.com/rate/Woody-Allen-Quotes/3494/ for the real source.
<table>
<tr><td colspan=2><font…>[AUTHORNAME]</FONT><BR>
<A href="[AUTHORLINK]">View all quotes from this author</A></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><font>[TXT]</font>
<table><tr><TD><font>-<i><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a></i></font></TD>
<TD width=85><a href="[TXTLINK]"><img></a></TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr>
</table>
# Wisdom Quotes
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/
## Pattern
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/quote/henry-david-thoreau-56.html
<h2 class="style10">[AUTHORNAME] Quote</h2>
<hr />
<div style="font-size:large">
<p>[TXT]<br /></p>
<p align="right">- [AUTHORNAME]
</div>
# All GreatQuotes
http://www.allgreatquotes.com/
## Pattern
<br>[TXT]<br>
<b>[AUTHORNAME]</b><br>
<span class="bodysi">[QUOTESOURCETITLE].</span><br>
# ThinkExist
http://en.thinkexist.com/
## Pattern
<tr><td>
<font>“<a href="[TXTLINK]">[TXT]</a>”</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<p><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME] quotes</a>
<font> ([AUTHORQUALIFICATION] [BIRTHDATE]-[DEATHDATE])</font></p>
</td></tr>
# Great Quotes
http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/387
## Pattern
<div class="document_box_body">
<a href="[TXTLINK]">"[TXT]"</a>
<div class="author_names"><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a></div>
</div>
# Quote Garden
http://quotegarden.com/
## Pattern
<BR><BR>[TXT] ~[AUTHORNAME]<BR>
# Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes
## Pattern
<div class="quoteText">“[TXT]”<br> ―
<a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a>,
<i><a href="[QUOTESOURCELINK]">[QUOTESOURCETITLE]</a></i>
</div>
# Quotes.net
http://www.quotes.net/quote/38756
## Pattern
(cleaned up a lot the markup)
<table>
<tr><td class="qtitle"><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME] Quotes</a></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td class="qsubtitle"><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">Famous [AUTHORNAME] Quotations</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="qauthor" colspan="2">[AUTHORQUALIFICATION] ([BIRTHDATE]-[DEATHDATE])</td></tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr><td>"[TXT]"</td></tr>
# WikiQuotes
https://en.wikiquote.org/
## Pattern
Example Page T.S. Eliot https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
<ul>
<li><b>[TXT]</b>
<ul><li>"<a href="[QUOTESOURCEAUTHORNAMELINK]"></a>",
[SOURCEQUALIFICATION]
<i><a href="[QUOTESOURCETITLE]">[QUOTESOURCETITLE]</a></i>
([SOURCEDATE])</li></ul>
</li>
</ul>
# Poesie.webnet.fr
http://poesie.webnet.fr/
well known French poets Web site
## Pattern:
<ul id="resultats_auteur">
<li><a href="[AUTHORLINK]">[AUTHORNAME]</a> ([BIRTHDATE]-[DEATHDATE])</li>
</ul><br />
<h1>[POEMTITLE]</h1>
<p class="last">[TXT]</p>
# Quote Evene
http://www.evene.fr/citations
Quotes in French
## Pattern:
<div class="block-cdc block-cdc-citations">
<div class="txt">
<h3>[TXT]</h3>
<h4>de <a href="[AUTHORLINK]" class="active">[AUTHORNAME]</a></span></h4>
<span class="author">[QUOTESOURCETITLE]</span>
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
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