Re: use of <mark> to denote notes in quoted text

Thanks Adrian,

>To be fair, I did not wade through the giant collection of sites you have
made available to see how often <mark> is used Weekend laziness and all...

<mark> usage is  low (from grepping a random subset of latest data 30,000
files = 64 matches in 34 files) and its usage it appears is uniformly
incorrect as per spec.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 8 September 2013 16:07, Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>wrote:

> > From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 10:53 AM
> >
> > Hi Adrian,
> > OK, so are you saying as I think Jukka was also, that no
> > special markup is needed to identify changes/additional text
> > added inline to quoted text?
>
> Yes.
>
> > The conventional means using brackets, explanatory text,
> > quotation marks etc is adequate?
>
> For my  needs as a blogger, sometimes paid writer, and general reader (but
> by no means professional, trained author/journalist), yes.
>
> > I am OK with that, I am just trying to explore what ways that
> > existing markup could be used to to disambigaute inline notes
> > etc from the quoted text.
>
> I think <mark> can serve that role, but I don't immediately see how
> authors will work into a workflow/process that doesn't seem to use it now,
> nor how they can do it and make it accessible.
>
> To be fair, I did not wade through the giant collection of sites you have
> made available to see how often <mark> is used Weekend laziness and all...
>
>