9506 2010-04-13 15:32:51 +0000 "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? 2010-10-04 14:45:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-blockquote-element P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 34949 0 contributor 2010-04-13 15:32:51 +0000 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 34978 1 ian 2010-04-13 23:05:43 +0000 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: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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?) 35014 2 Ms2ger 2010-04-14 06:54:25 +0000 As opposed to may. I'm not sure if @cite is useful enough to need such a strong requirement. 35015 3 Ms2ger 2010-04-14 07:36:23 +0000 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> 35037 4 ian 2010-04-14 22:15:40 +0000 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: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Yeah, that makes sense. 35038 5 contributor 2010-04-14 22:18:01 +0000 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