I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!

[pne]

Well, not quite, but I'll be off to the qepHom (small meeting of fans of the Klingon language) in Saarbrücken; I'll be leaving tomorrow morning and returning on Sunday night.

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<cite> and friends

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hm... *reads the spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1) again* I suppose you're right.

I picked up the habit from someone else to mark off quotations from others in LiveJournal comments; previously I had used <i>.

I suppose that <blockquote> is the best, perhaps, since I generally want to set off quotations from my comments. This'll probably mean that I should also use <p> around each paragraph rather than relying on the auto-formatting with <br> that LiveJournal would do otherwise (for "correctness", and also because I can imagine the spacing may be off if you simply end a </blockquote> and hit return twice in the comment box).

Hm, that would be invalid, wouldn't it? A <br> immediately following a </blockquote> without an intervening block-level container such as <p> or <div>?

Thanks for pointing that out.

Re: <cite> and friends

[jordik.livejournal.com]

A blockquote usually has automatic margins on top and bottom, so you should not need an <br> tag after it. Alas once you begin using block-level tags here on LJ you can't have valid markup unless you disable the automatic formatting.

Although LJ certainly is way up there when it comes to conformance, it wouldn't take much to make LJ validate fully. I'd love to see what is possible if I get the time ;-)