Re: Is there a good reason to use an entity code for double quotes inside the code element from Martin J. Dürst on 2017-11-19 (spec-prod@w3.org from October to December 2017)

From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:19:11 +0900
To: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>, Matt King <a11ythinker@gmail.com>, spec-prod@w3.org
Message-ID: <83459235-cf3f-5163-730c-b99c713fab8a@it.aoyama.ac.jp>

On 2017/11/19 16:28, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 22:26 -0800, Matt King wrote:
> 
>> Is there a good reason to use &quot; instead of " when writing code
>> samples in our specs?
> 
> None that i'm aware of. You need &amp; and &lt; though.

If there's one, then it's probably "No need to have to think about 
whether I'm in an attribute, or in content." That can come in handy in 
programs, or when you expect a lot of copying of content from attribute 
values to content and back.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Sunday, 19 November 2017 08:19:38 UTC