Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-08-02 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Simpson, Grant Leyton wrote: Is there any value in adding an href or uri or similar attribute to the cite element to indicate a location for a work (or information about the work) or, in the case of a URI, an indicator that can be used as a reference programmatically?

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-10 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
I was unaware of the Microdata spec. Now that I have seen it, I think it offers a lot of power and flexibility. I think it should adequately cover the use case I was thinking of. I'm in favor of adding a non-normative note to the section of the HTML5 spec that discusses cite that

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-07 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
On May 6, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Edward O'Connor wrote: Consider how the above would work in legacy browsers, and then consider how this would work in them: pAs Ashley Crandall Amos says in citea href=http://example.com/books/crandall/linguisticmeans;Linguistic Means of Determining the Dates

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-06 Thread Schalk Neethling
...@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Simpson, Grant Leyton Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:44 AM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element Dear WHATWG list participants, Forgive me if this conversation has been had before; I've

Re: [whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-06 Thread Edward O'Connor
Is there any value in adding an href or uri or similar attribute to the cite element to indicate a location for a work (or information about the work) or, in the case of a URI, an indicator that can be used as a reference programmatically? cite uri has a much worse fallback story than simply

[whatwg] Expanding the cite element

2010-05-05 Thread Simpson, Grant Leyton
Dear WHATWG list participants, Forgive me if this conversation has been had before; I've just recently joined the list. Is there any value in adding an href or uri or similar attribute to the cite element to indicate a location for a work (or information about the work) or, in the case of a