I seemed to have missed these when going through the cite e-mails
recently.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, John Lewis wrote:
A way to mark up titles is something I've always wanted in HTML.
Currently, cite is only appropriate for actual citations. I rarely
cite books, movies, etc.; I'm usually just
If we go with something like a TYPE attribute, I hope we can give it a
better name. However, hiding semantics inside the value of an
attribute is a poor markup design in humble opinion. (Although it also
has some advantages.)
It's subclassing: the general is sufficient, the specific
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Shannon wrote:
I've seen a few suggestions now that class be used as an identifying
attribute for purposes other than CSS. While this seems logical it
raises some issues for designers and implementers. Consider the
following:
cite class=small book blueThe
All of them. class isn't intended for styling, it's intended to subclass
elements.
Regardless of the intention of the class element it is NOT used in the
real world to subclass anything but styles and custom script. We may
wish otherwise but that is irrelevant. The value of class to me is:
