Hi all,
I really like this idea, how would this be handled from a presentational point of view? I guess it will be a CSS style issue but, will browsers implement some standard way of displaying these cite elements if it has the uri attribute? Schalk Neethling From: whatwg-boun...@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 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 URI, an indicator that can be used as a reference programmatically? <q> has a "cite" attribute, so it seems to me that if we have a place to link to further information in <q> it makes sense to do so in <cite>. After all, whether an author quotes from a reference (<q>) or merely discusses it without quoting (<cite>), both of these would end up in a works cited in a traditional paper. Therefore, I think both should link (or refer) to somewhere. If it were a URI (and therefore not necessarily retrievable), it would help in cases where the same work gets referenced in slightly different ways: <p>As Ashley Crandall Amos says in <cite uri="http://example.com/books/crandall/linguisticmeans";>Linguistic Means of Determining the Dates of Old English Literary Texts</cite> ... Amos also mentions in <cite uri="http://example.com/books/crandall/linguisticmeans";>Linguistic Means</cite></p> ✍ Best, Grant Simpson ¶ Senior Analyst/Programmer, Office of the Registrar ¶ Doctoral Student, Department of English ¶ Representative, IU Bloomington Professional Council Indiana University Bloomington
