There is this format for presenting quotes
As CITEHarry S. Truman/CITE said,
Q lang=en-usThe buck stops here./Q
More info here : http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-CITE
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:57:09 -0500, Daniel Bowling
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Ok, I consider myself fairly
Daniel Bowling wrote:
shouldn't it be in a way that any reader can see
the attribution?
Of course. Unfortunately, this is a user agent issue, and no mainstream
browser (as far as I'm aware of) exposes this attribute to the user. It
*can* be visually displayed via CSS (:before / :after and the
Clayton Lengel-Zigich wrote:
There is this format for presenting quotes
As CITEHarry S. Truman/CITE said,
Q lang=en-usThe buck stops here./Q
The problem with that (and yes, I know it's an official W3C example) is
that it does not unequivocally link the CITE with the Q (not in the same
way that,
H. Lauke
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Subject: Re: [WSG] blockquote cite=what the?
Clayton Lengel-Zigich wrote:
There is this format for presenting quotes
As CITEHarry S. Truman/CITE said,
Q lang=en-usThe buck stops here./Q
The problem with that (and yes, I
The problem with that (and yes, I know it's an official W3C example) is
that it does not unequivocally link the CITE with the Q (not in the same
way that, for instance, LABEL is linked to an INPUT or other form
control via the FOR attribute). So the relationship between those two
elements is
Clayton Lengel-Zigich wrote:
That is a good point, however is there an instance where the two would
not appear to be linked when viewing the page? (e.g. a screen reader
or something)
Ok, aside from any automated harvesting tools or whatever, consider the
scenario of a screenreader user who skips
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
[snip] consider the scenario of a screenreader user who skips from
paragraph to paragraph, and ends up on the second paragraph of this
pciteHarry S. Truman/cite said,
q lang=en-usThe buck stops here./q/p
...
pHe then also said qsomething else entirely/q./p
Now, assuming
On 22 Oct 2004, at 02:23, Paul Connolley wrote:
[snip] consider the scenario of a screenreader user who skips from
paragraph to paragraph, and ends up on the second paragraph of this
[snip a whole load more]
I'll reiterate that
I see that I reiterated nothing. I've missed a bit out that I
Paul Connolley wrote:
This is a perfectly natural English language grammar.
Sorry, wasn't advocating changing the writing style, but having a
mechanism in place to unequivocally tie a CITE course to Q or BLOCKQUOTE
and have those pesky browsers actually expose that information to the
user
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Paul Connolley wrote:
This is a perfectly natural English language grammar.
Sorry, wasn't advocating changing the writing style, but having a
mechanism in place to unequivocally tie a CITE course to Q or
BLOCKQUOTE
My apologies also if I came across wrong. I agree with
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