- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:23:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Yahia Chlyeh <cyahia@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Yahia Chlyeh wrote: > > Having quotation punctuation generated by the user agent is utterly > wrong. This discussion has been going from a long time ago in the > mailing lists. Quotation marks for the /q/ element should be provided in > the source so that 1) non-graphical user agents can represent them, > otherwise the content would be flawed, Why can't non-graphical user agents insert quotes also? > and 2) to avoid issues that arise when writing content in different > languages: in French for example, the reference of the quote is written > inside the quote inside quotation marks (..., he whispered, ...) while > in English that's put outside the quotation marks; Indeed. > there's also problems with punctuation in/outside quotation marks that's > different in languages. Indeed. > After all these arguments, the best is to prevent automatic generation > of quotation marks and notify web authors to add them outside the /q/ > element itself, since if quotes generation is preserved, then why not > auto generate periods for end of /p/ elements too? IE8, Firefox, Safari, and Opera all render quotes. We lost this war. You don't have to use <q> though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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