I agree, the usefulness of an uncoupled citation is much lower than one not specifically within the tag. What if many quotes where used near each other inline-- huge usability concerns I would guess.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] <blockquote cite="what the?"> Clayton Lengel-Zigich wrote: > There is this format for presenting quotes > > As <CITE>Harry S. Truman</CITE> said, > <Q lang="en-us">The 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, for instance, LABEL is linked to an INPUT or other form control via the FOR attribute). So the relationship between those two elements is really implicit, and mostly down to proximity within the page and the general context... But again, one of those examples of how ambiguous and utterly flawed many aspects of the "semantic" structures in (x)html are... Patrick H. Lauke _____________________________________________________ re*dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
