#microformats 2021-01-07

2021-01-07 UTC
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btrem In other words: if I polled academics about a new publishing language, and asked what features they'd need, I would /think/ they'd include things they regularly use in their papers, such as abstract, footnote, and bibliography. I would not expect the general public to name those things, however.
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[tantek] it's not about the publishing use-cases it's about the consuming code use-cases
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[tantek] unless you can come up with actual sites / applications (not just search engines, they'll do anything) that will do something useful with the extra markup, including if you can come up with something browsers can do
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btrem Mostly browsers just show the text content, using font sizes, weights, and white space to make it readable. Anchor links and forms are the notable exceptions.
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btrem Again, for the avoidance of all doubt, I'm not arguing that there /should/ be a bibliography element, only that I'm surprised that it wasn't added to the original spec.
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[tantek] indeed
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