- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:02:30 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
aloha! this is a bit of re-thinking of the issues i've raised on-list about deprecating Q and BLOCKQUOTE in favor of a single QUOTE element, summarized at: <http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/MuchAdoAboutQ> there is also a comprehensive review of Q, QUOTE, and BLOCKQUOTE in HTML5 by robert burns: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0915.html> ============================================================= Additional Alternate Attribute Set for a Single Quote Element ============================================================= 1. @type - defines the type of quotation: * type="inline" * type="nested" * type="block" these type attributes should determine how a QUOTE is rendered: * inline, embedded in surrounding non-quoted text; * nested, a way of including a QUOTE that includes a QUOTE; * block, render contents of the QUOTE element as a block element 2. a for/id binding between the Q/QUOTE element and the CITE element; and a reuse mechanism for newly quoted material derived from the same resource/anchor, which contains previously quoted content, or content from a common source 3. choosing a target attribute (actionable quotes pointing to text-in-context) * either reuse @cite or, since @cite is not widely supported, @src could be used to point at target, but i'd prefer a simple @href, since that seems to be the most widely supported exposure mechanism 4. the CITE element needs a targeting mechanism for linking to Dublin Core reference files -- please consult the following: 4a) initial thoughts on redefining CITE's attribute set can be found at: <http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/MuchAdoAboutQ#head- 04eed162a38525f80349467cdf218ea72fddc167> 4b) Dublin Core References & Resources can be found at: <http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/MuchAdoAboutQ#line-90> Note: test pages for support for the Q and BLOCKQUOTE elements as defined by HTML 4.01 can be found at <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/exegesis/binding.html> and <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/exegesis/4free.html> primary source documents, marked-up so as to be linked to at the paragraph, sentence, and sometimes even clause level can be found in the following directory: <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/exegesis> the pages also test for support for the CSS2 :before and :after pseudo-elements for the generation of emphatic quotes (i used the EM element for this purpose, so that there is a fallback to demarcate emphasis, even if the open-quote and close-quote values are not supported by a particular user agent -- in the ideal world, emphatic quotes would have the following @media screen style rules: em { font-style: italic; } em.em-quote { font-style: normal; } em.em-quote:before { content: open-quote; } em.em-quote:after { contents: close-quote; } the above style rules for the screen media type, except for the em.em-quote's font-style being set to "normal", as well as complimentary style rules using the aural media type are used within the test documents gregory. -------------------------------------------------------------- When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller -------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------
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