- From: Gonzalo Rubio <gonchuki@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:12:04 -0100
- To: "Sam Kuper" <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>
- Cc: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> wrote: > 2008/10/24 Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> >> >> 2008/10/24 Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> >>> >>> 4) nest automatically with an attribute to control quoting >> >> I take it you mean that the attribute would state that, for instance, "The >> first level of nesting is to be rendered with double quotation marks, the >> next level with single ones, and any further levels will alternate in the >> same fashion." If so, I favour this option: it permits the greatest >> separation of presentation from content. > > That said, it must be possible to override the rule in specific instances. > Suppose I am marking up content which contains a phrase that is definitely a > quotation, yet the author has only remembered to include the opening > quotation mark. In order to preserve what the author has written, I must be > able to override any rule that would by default append a quotation mark to > the quote (or alternatively, specify a rule that only puts a quotation mark > at the beginning of the quote). > Another thought: shouldn't the rules be expressed in CSS? They do represent > a 'style' of punctuation, after all. current UAs that support the <q> element as it was meant already implement the :before and :after pseudo-elements to control the styling, so that case is covered by existing browsers. That is, at least Firefox (Gecko 1.8 & 1.9), Opera 9.5+ and Safari/Chome allow the styling of <q> elements, and also replacement of the character used for representation of the quotation mark via the content: CSS property.
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