RE: Wiki summary of q element default styling issues

I am +0.8 in support for this.

I see that the q element has other uses than providing quote marks. For example, I use the q element (and CSS) to italicize and possibly color quoted text. So I don’t object to the element just its application of quote marks.
I would state more directly :

"Others believe that no single set of quote mark character conventions can meet all needs. Therefore the q element should always be used with a class which bears an explicit CSS quote property."

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:kent.karlsson14@telia.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 11:39 AM
To: John Cowan; ishida@w3.org
Cc: Asmus Freytag; www International; W3C Digital Publishing IG
Subject: Re: Wiki summary of q element default styling issues


Den 2016-04-21 18:29, skrev "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>:

> As long as you are adding minority opinions, why not add mine, which 
> has seen some support on this list?
> 
> "Others believe that even if the behavior of the q element were to be 
> fully standardized, no single set of conventions can meet all needs, 
> and that therefore the q element should be avoided in favor of 
> explicit quotation marks, unless semantic analysis needs to determine 
> which parts of the text are quotations.  In this case, each q element 
> should be associated with a class which bears an explicit CSS quote property."

I agree with John's comment.

/Kent Karlsson

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:56:17 UTC