- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:11:52 +0200
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:52:48 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> Instead of enhancing the Q element, we should deprecate it and replace >> it. > > Replace it with what? A new element, <quote> for example. > What should we do with the existing content that uses <q>? It will still be supported, but deprecated in favour of <quote>. > 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.) Instead of shoe-horning this into <q>, isn't it better for future content authors to have a <quote> element that has this functionality out of the box as well as being able to replace <blockquote>? -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- asbjorn@ulsberg.no «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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