- From: Martin Kliehm <martin.kliehm@namics.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:18:55 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
As consensus was reached in last week's telcon to close Issue-48, I've filed two bug reports as promised. http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7490 (q element) http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7491 (blockquote) Cheers, Martin Martin Kliehm wrote: > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> ISSUE-48: UA-q-quotes - Should user-agents generate quotes for the q >> element >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/48 >> >> This issue raises two complaints: (a) the draft instructs authors to >> add quotes to Q elements manually; and (b) the draft makes no clear >> user-agent recommendation regarding blockquote. I believe both of >> these issues are now addressed, and the interoperability issue with Q >> is addressed. The rendering section now requires that user agents add >> quotes to Q elements: >> >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#punctuation-and-decorations >> >> Since rendering is generally specified and BLOCKQUOTE doesn't require >> adding quotes, it should be assumed UAs are expected not to add >> quotes, as would be consistent with existing practice. >> >> Thus, I believe the problems raised by this issue are solved in >> current drafts. I suggest closing. > > a) The current draft > (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-q-element) says: > > Quotation punctuation (such as quotation marks) must not appear > immediately before, after, or inside q elements; they will be inserted > into the rendering by the user agent. > > I think this could be phrased less ambiguous along the line of this: > > Authors SHOULD not use quotation punctuation (such as quotation marks) > immediately before, after, or inside q elements, because user agents > MUST insert them into the rendering, unless the default rendering is > overridden by CSS. > > b) The current draft > (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-blockquote-element ) > doesn't have any recommendations regarding the blockquote element. I'd > suggest: > > [...] Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, > whose address, if it has one, should be cited in the cite attribute. > [NEW]User agents MUST NOT insert quotation punctuation (such as > quotation marks) into the rendering.[/NEW] > > I'd appreciate if any people who are more experienced than me would > shape this text into something that is suited to go into a draft. When > the current draft is reflecting some wording to that effect I wouldn't > object closing Issue-48, but I think amending is necessary before that > can be done.
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