Heydon blogged about <blockquote> and Michelle blogged our collective sigh at how unfortunately hard the simple act of quoting something is. You’re not supposed to put a <cite> inside the <blockquote> which I find obnoxious especially because the screenreader situation seems fine with that pattern (this WordPress blog does it that way by default). Adrian doesn’t like the <figure> with <figcaption> approach (too verbose) but that’s what Heydon recommends.
Since this is conflict, it’s Priority of Constituencies of time:
In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.
Since it seems to be a good option for users (and me), I’m gonna forsake the specs and say <cite> inside <blockquote> is fine.
