Citing Your Citations

I quote a lot on the blog, but for the most part I use the <blockquote> tag and not <q>. The latter is aimed at inline quotation; if I find a quote I want to post, it's not going to inline, it's going to be a point of focus deserving a block of its own. But moving to another matter, the one I was going to talk about in post, the <cite> tag. Who uses it? How do they use it? Why should you use it?

Apparently, there are quotations and there are citations. Quotations are verbal and citations are written. A quotation is something a person said, a citation is something they wrote. On the net, a citation is the title of something that person wrote, and the <cite> tag can be used to mark such a title within the text. The cite tag was formerly used in conjunction with a persons name, but now it's the publication that should be referenced; as the W3C so humbly put it...

A person’s name is not the title of a work — even if people call that person a piece of work...

It'll probably take a while before anyone starts using this tag on auto, though. Currently it's a more used attribute than it is a tag of its own.