btremIn 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.
[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
btremMostly 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.
btremAgain, 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.
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.