2008/10/30 Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com> > Another question along those lines: > Does "[quotation] marks" refer specifically to the " character? No. (Assuming my modification to your question, above, was correct.) > Or does it also include the " entity? What about the right/left > quotation marks, or their associated entities? In my understanding, yes (except insofar as I am not certain what you mean by "their associated entities"). > I can understand us wanting to carry on the HTML 4 behavior, I think we can do rather better than HTML 4; my various suggestions elsewhere in the current threads on <q> express my suggestions as to how we can do so. > we don't even know what [the HTML 4 behaviour] is supposed to be, with this > vague definition [of what constitutes a quotation mark]... Avoiding such vagueness, either by omitting the prescription that, "Authors should not put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the content of a Q element."[1] or by replacing it with something much less ambiguous, would be one component of defining the <q> element better in HTML 5 than it was defined in HTML 4. Regards, Sam [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2
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