Dive into citations
Published December 27th, 2002 in GeneralLet me join the line of fanboys as Mark Pilgrim paves the semantic way.
I am but a padawan learner in the ways of the semantic web, but I learn fast. Every now and then I stumble upon some new way of improving the semantics, getting me ever so closer to the Web Nirvana.
I knew that the <cite> tag existed, but I never really knew what it was about. Sure, you use it for citations. But I had to see an example before I could see the usefulness of it.
I’m already thinking about how to add an archive for this to MovableType, but I suppose the LazyWeb™ will get it done before I even get started. Besides, I need to have a look at the MT API first..
Next question. What tag is really best to use when writing file names, console commands or HTML tags in the text? I like to display them differently to mark that it’s not a normal word. So far I have been using <tt>, but is <kbd> better? Or <code>, though I suppose it’s mostly for larger blocks of code?
Update: Now that I think about it, <code> is a pretty obvious change. Time for a search and replace en masse.
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The spec says that “Designates a fragment of computer code”. I’ve always thought was for blocks of code outside paragraphs.
And since console commands are user input, shouldn’t they be , which the spec says “Indicates text to be entered by the user”?