- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:31:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote [1]: > > It seems thus obvious that it is very misleading to state that authors > can use style sheets to add the quote marks, if they do, the document > would break in user agents that do not support style sheets, rendering > e.g. "[QUOTE: ... ]" instead of "'...'" seems to be allowed but is > something rather stupid to do for a user agent. Even if they are allowed > to render quote marks or other indicators for a quote, it would likely > break as the user agent does not know whether the author included the > quote marks in the document, they would have to deal with all of [...] Bjoern makes some very valid points in his e-mail [1]. Is there any chance the HTML working group could reply to his post? I am curious to understand what the intended use of the <quote> element is. [1] http://www.w3.org/mid/412cd93e.866696553@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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