- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:05:13 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > ... > > > <q>foo bar and then <cite>Ian</cite> said: > > > <blockquote> > > > <p>Well, I don't want to go into details right now...</p> > > > <p>... but this looks like a very ugly markup construct...</p> > > > </blockquote> > > > however, he was of course wrong, as this kind of nesting is actually > > > kind a cool, not?</q> > > > > > > ..? It looks terrible imho. Not something you put inline or so. > > > > There have actually been examples of this in this in the past few weeks, > > enough to convince me that in some cases it is a valid use case. > > As far as I can see, all the supporting examples have been provided by > yourself, and none of them are conformant to basic typography. (This is given > away partly by your starting the supposedly resumed outer paragraph with > "....".) In other words, any written work attempting such constructions would > be marked as an error by a human editor. > > So if <p>s inside <p>s are allowed, I think it should be only for <p > lang="en-hixie">. Fair enough. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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