2008/10/29 Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> > I found it on Amazon's French site. This book is 196 pages long. The idea > that someone should need to read this book (in its original language) and > understand it, all in order to implement the <q> tag is absurd. I'm certainly not proposing that all UA authors *must* read the book to implement the <q> tag well. At worst, they'd have to read only a small part of it (and small parts of comparable works for other languages too). But the best solution, which I outlined previously in this thread, would be to make a pre-digested ruleset (informed by the French standard and comparable works for other languages) available as part of the HTML 5 spec, or referenced from it, so that UA authors wouldn't have to go to (re-)interpret the typographical standard source documents at all. > And an author needs to do the same in CSS if they need to use a "grammar" > that is not implemented by a browser vendor? No, not at all. Regards, SamReceived on Wednesday, 29 October 2008 22:36:06 UTC
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