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Friday, January 10, 2003Impossible Things
One of the things that I learned from Mark Pilgrim the other day was that the cite attribute of the blockquote and q elements is an URI. Do you know how hard it is to find an URI for a citation? I guess the folks at CiteSeer would.
`I ca'n't believe that!' said Alice.`Ca'n't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. `Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said `one ca'n't believe impossible things.'
`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'
IE doesn't render the q appropriately; it should. Weblog tools should, when posting a quote, automatically complete the cite attribute. But I suppose that neither of those things will happen.
3:19:45 PM # Google It!
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