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Bug 9506 - "Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose address, if it has one, should be cited in the cite attribute." **Should** be cited?
Summary: "Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose addres...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-04-13 15:32 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:45 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-04-13 15:32:51 UTC
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-blockquote-element

Comment:
"Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose
address, if it has one, should be cited in the cite  attribute." **Should** be
cited?

Posted from: 81.246.201.224 by ms2ger@gmail.com
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-13 23:05:43 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: As opposed to may, or as opposed to must? (Are you arguing the requirement is too weak, or too strong? Or something else altogether?)
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2010-04-14 06:54:25 UTC
As opposed to may. I'm not sure if @cite is useful enough to need such a strong requirement.
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2010-04-14 07:36:23 UTC
The fact that less than 0.75% of blockquotes in the MAMA study [1] have a cite attribute suggest that most authors don't see the need either. (Or that they're using blockquote for the margins, or that they've never heard of the cite attribute.)

[1] <http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-phrase-block-list/#block>
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-14 22:15:40 UTC
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Yeah, that makes sense.
Comment 5 contributor 2010-04-14 22:18:01 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5047.
Check-in comment: Relax the recommendation of citing URLs for <blockquote> and <q>.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5046&to=5047