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Bug 13082 - It says "Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source," however, http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/ has an example which puts a <footer> inside <blockquote> to show the source of a quote. Is that right? If so, I would like this se
Summary: It says "Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source," how...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-06-29 01:47 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:35 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-06-29 01:47:55 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-blockquote-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-blockquote-element

Comment:
It says "Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source,"
however, http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/ has an example which puts a
<footer> inside <blockquote> to show the source of a quote. Is that right? If
so, I would like this section to clarify that and to have some markup example
for that.

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Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2011-06-29 06:31:12 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: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's not right. It's something the Doctors made up. If you want the spec to be changed, please provide rationale and reopen.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:35:40 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1