- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:10:16 -0500
- To: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
HI Olivier, On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > > On 7/19/07, Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com> wrote: >> The @needsmarks attribute [cut] >> >> Note, I used a true/false boolean, but it could be done with >> traditional HTML boolean. It complicates things, and personally, I >> just don't like HTML boolean approach (it might need to be changed to >> a negation of this boolean to work with HTML style booleans and still >> work on the existing quotation elements). > > It could also accept a language code, like needsmarks="fr-fr", in > order to respect the specific typo needs («, “, ...). I could see that as a useful modification to my proposal. However, I think CSS2 has a better mechanism for that and something better handled through styling. The CSS solution has not been too widely implemented and for that reason I could see trying to support your suggestion in HTML. Take care, Rob
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