- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:31:49 -0400
John Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:08:58 -0400, fantasai <fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net> > wrote: > >> I agree that <q> has problems, particularly with en-US style punctuation. >> However, if the italics is going to be in the CSS, I think the quotation >> marks should also be there. > > But the italic text needs* to be applied via CSS. The quotation marks could > be written by the author. In plain text, for example, quotation marks are > content, and italic text must be faked (_like this_ to represent > underlining) or done without. In UAs that don't support CSS (or don't support > it fully), written quotation marks will still work. By that argument, in UAs that don't support CSS, italics won't work either. > That is a good point. Maybe there could be language-specific behavior > based on the lang attribute I agree that there should be. Finding out what that language-specific behavior should be will be difficult, however... ~fantasai
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