- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:46:05 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, www-style@w3.org
Karl Dubost wrote:
> I slightly agree with you except that you misunderstood me.
> I still have _hope_ that quotation marks be implemented in User
> Agents for HTML 4.01, by HTML 4.01 or CSS.
>
> I'm just saying that dropping the CSS feature seems to me dangerous
> because it has been shown that it was “difficult” to implement on the
> HTML side.
>
> Then I was wondering if the CSS property would make it easier by not
> having a table of all cases, and leaving the freedom to author to
> specify the right characters.
But are they really necessary anyway? Can’t you already do the same
thing with:
q:lang(fr):before { content: "«"; }
q:lang(fr):after { content: "»"; }
q q:lang(fr):before { content: "‹"; }
q q:lang(fr):after { content: "›"; }
etc. (and possibly repeat that to allow for up to 4 levels of q nesting)?
If that is possible already, why would a user agent author bother to
create another mechanism specifically for quotes, while Q is barely used
in HTML anyway (though that may be only due to inconsistent browser
handling)?
~Grauw
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Received on Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:46:09 UTC