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Re: longcode and longquote instead of blockcode and blockquote

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:18:10 +0100
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <20050707221810.GA23607@us-lot.org>

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:12:30PM -0400, Orion Adrian wrote:
 
> Rather than <blockquote> why not <longquote> or better yet <quote
> length="long">?
 
> I think it captures the semantics better. I'm making it block
> because it's long.

I use block quotes because they contain paragraphs, or blocks of code
- i.e. becuase I'm quoting blocks - not due to their length.

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk 
Received on Thursday, 7 July 2005 22:18:14 GMT
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