- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:34:53 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Spartanicus wrote: > FWIW I consider the HTML spec requirement that a browser should generate > quotation marks around content marked up with the <q> element as a > flawed concept. Quotation marks for inline quotes are punctuation marks > like commas, full stops etc. and should be part of the content proper, > not generated by the browser. I'd see quotation marks as the way in traditional (non-machine-readable) writing to define (or mark up) where a quote starts and ends. This function is fulfilled far more unambiguously by the actual markup of the <q> element. > IMO if for example the numbering of items in a list is more than mere > presentation they should /also/ be made part of the content proper. IMO > the generated prefix to list items is mere presentation on par with a > border specified on a paragraph. For standard numbering (1,2,3,...), I'd disagree on this. It's not mere presentation, but the visual manifestation of the markup. If it *is* an ordered list, the fact that it's marked up as such needs to be preserved when copying, IMHO. However, I tend to agree in cases where the numbering has been set to something exotic (e.g. roman numerals). P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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