- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:52:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
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? What should we do with the existing content that uses <q>? This has been an open issue in the WHATWG for a while but nobody has come up with a particularily compelling solution -- either the solutions drop compatibility with existing content, or existing UAs, or require complex CSS features. (My own proposal falls in the latter camp; it makes <q> require quote marks around <q> elements (author-provided), then provides complex CSS that can select those quotes for replacement -- for legacy unquoted content you get the quotes added by CSS, for everything else you get the author-provided quotes.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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