- From: Andrew Sidwell <w3c@andrewsidwell.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:48:27 +0100
- To: HTML Issue Tracking WG <public-html@w3.org>
HTML Issue Tracking Issue Tracker wrote: > For Q (quotation) and BLOCKQUOTE a 'marks' content markup attribute. > Permits authors greater control over the separation of concerns of > styling quotations and specifying the semantics of quotations within a > document. Also allows authors to work around the current state of > interoperability across popular UAs. > > for more detailed discussion, please consult the wiki page at: > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/AddedAttributeQuotationMarks The use-case here is authors wanting to mark up quotes. There are two plausible ways of implementing it: just choose one and be done with it. Sure, <q> has interoperability issues, so pressure IE to fix it or the other browsers to stop using quotes; don't invent a new attribute to permanently embed this weird situation in the specification. (Just because other weird things are in now mandated by the spec doesn't mean that we should keep on adding weird things to that list.) Whilst I appreciate that hypothetically it would be nice for some people to specify which way they want things, in practice it won't be a) useful or b) even make a difference to the vast majority of authors, so increasing implementation complexity for such a tiny gain seems, well, silly. (See "Solve Real Problems".) -- Andrew Sidwell
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