2013-02-08 UTC
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tantek !tell Stevef if you're talking about http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Cite_element#Speaker in particular, then no, there aren't really any negatives (less precise spec?). So yes, a bunch of us continue to use <cite> in this way because it's not something that validators/browsers care about, so as authors, we can use it as flexibly as we want.