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pageoneresults - 2:00 pm on Jan 5, 2009 (gmt 0)


<q> - short quotation ("cite" attribute looks interesting!)

H49: Using semantic markup to mark emphasized or special text
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JAWS contains support for blockquote and cite. WindowEyes contains support for blockquote, q and cite

9.2.1 Phrase elements: EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ABBR, and ACRONYM
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CITE: Contains a citation or a reference to other sources

9.2.2 Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements
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cite: The value of this attribute is a URI that designates a source document or message. This attribute is intended to give information about the source from which the quotation was borrowed.

The CITE comes in two flavors; The CITE Element and the cite Attribute. Here's an example of using the cite Attribute within a blockquote...

<blockquote cite="http://www.example.com/">
<p>Quote here.</p>
</blockquote>

And here's an example using the cite Attribute with the CITE Element...

<cite cite="http://www.example.com/"></cite>

4.6.3 The cite element
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The cite element represents the title of a work (e.g. a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theatre production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, etc). This can be a work that is being quoted or referenced in detail (i.e. a citation), or it can just be a work that is mentioned in passing. A person's name is not the title of a work - even if people call that person a piece of work - and the element must therefore not be used to mark up people's names.

Emphasis mine. The W3 use the CITE Element to markup names of people. According to the HTML 5 spec, this is not correct.

The CITE Element and the cite Attributes are rarely used from what I can tell. I've inspected thousands of pages in my tenure and can probably say I've only seen a handful of implementations.

Since the cite Attribute allows for an external http reference, how do you think the search engines treat something like that?


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