2008/10/29 Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> > So now, you want to tied dozens of other standards to HTML, There's nothing new (or awful) about having an HTML spec reference other documents, especially documents produced by other standards institutions. > just to implement... quotation marks around the <q> tag? No, not just quotation marks. Appropriate styling, which means, as has already been established in this thread, something more complex than "just quotation marks" (but, I am certain, not intractably complex). > A group of standards so uncommon, that in the case of one of the most > spoken languages on the planet, the printed version is not available from > Amazon UK? It's a *French* standard. It's readily available in France. > And what happens when the document is written from the perspective of an > non-standard dialect? The author loses the ability to safely use <q>? No, the author would get the default styling for the specified language. If that wasn't appropriate, then the author could override it, but in such a case, it's dubious that the language attribute would be correct either. Regards, Sam
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