2008/10/31 Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> > Justin James and Robert Burns wrote: This is confusing; please could you express more clearly about who you are quoting? > But note that what [the <p> element] adds is strictly whitespace. The > parser has always > been allowed to normalize whitespace (including line breaks and leading > tabs) to whatever it feels is appropriate. I think you may be conflating two things: (1) The insertion of whitespace by an HTML rendering engine upon encountering a <p> element. (2) The discarding of superfluous whitespace in elements' content or between elements, by an HTML parser. > Quotation marks are not whitespace, and adding or removing them is > something that the parser normally shouldn't do, any more than it > should add or remove vowels. The suggestion that a UA (I think this is what you meant by "a parser") should not add or remove vowels and, therefore, should not add or remove quotation marks, is a non sequitur. As such, I don't think it has any weight against the proposals I've outlined elsewhere about <q>. Regards, SamReceived on Friday, 31 October 2008 13:21:29 UTC
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