- From: Alexander Graf <a.graf@aetherworld.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:28:11 +0200
- To: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, public-html@w3.org
On 03.04.2007, at 00:11, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > 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. +1 >> What should we do with the existing content that uses <q>? > > It will still be supported, but deprecated in favour of <quote>. +1 >> 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>? +1 I agree fully.
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