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current: "The cite element now solely represents the title of a work (e.g. a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theatre production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, a legal case report, etc). Specifically the example in HTML4 where it is used to mark up the name of a person is no longer considered conforming." suggested: "The cite element represents a reference to a creative work (e.g. a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theatre production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, a legal case report, a web site, a web page, a blog post or comment, a forum post or comment, a tweet, a written or oral statement, etc). It must include the title of the work or the name of the author(person, people or organization) or an URL reference, or a reference in abbreviated form as per the conventions used for the addition of citation metadata." http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element
Do you consider the definition in HTML5 to be a change from HTML4 worth mentioning?
https://github.com/whatwg/html-differences/commit/4670a9ccc558d4af89971f15f09a6a124fab0cee
(In reply to Simon Pieters from comment #1) > Do you consider the definition in HTML5 to be a change from HTML4 worth > mentioning? yes
What's the difference? Note that I don't mention changes that are minor or otherwise I'd have to list exactly all elements which would be a bit pointless. (See the source for elements not listed.)
(In reply to Simon Pieters from comment #4) > What's the difference? > > Note that I don't mention changes that are minor or otherwise I'd have to > list exactly all elements which would be a bit pointless. (See the source > for elements not listed.) i can live with it not being mentioned