- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:41:06 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Apr 3, 2007, at 00:52, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, L. David Baron wrote: > > > > > > Instead of enhancing the Q element, we should deprecate it and replace > > > it. > > > > Replace it with what? > > With author-provided punctuation as text content. Just dropping <q> altogether would lose the ability to style quotes, which I've done and think is valuable, as well as losing the ability to link quotes to sources (cite=""), which can be quite useful too. <q> is used quite a lot on the Web, is it really worth dropping altogether? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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