- From: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:28:59 -0400
- To: "'Lachlan Hunt'" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "'Chris Wilson'" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
I feel VERY uncomfortable with the idea of an HTML element that specifies a particular presentation in a manner that only makes sense in certain languages (not every locale will have a quotation mark character, but authors will come to expect the <q> element to render it). If I am reading this idea wrong, please let me know! J.Ja > -----Original Message----- > From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:14 PM > To: Chris Wilson > Cc: HTML WG > Subject: Re: <q> > > > Chris Wilson wrote: > > I'd like to suggest a different strategy for <q>. I'm not > > comfortable with a strategy that directly says you must break the > > only required rendering rule in HTML4.01 in order to be compliant > > with HTML5. I believe we should pick one of the following options: > > 1) it should either be removed, > > Even if we remove the element from the collection of conforming > elements, we still need to decide what to include in the rendering > section with regards to quotation marks. > > We could make it non-conforming and either require it to be surrounded > with quotes (probably something simple like always using U+0022 > QUOTATION MARK, or whatever browsers do if they vary for different > locales), or not rendering any quotes at all. > > -- > Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software > http://lachy.id.au/ > http://www.opera.com/
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