- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:28:29 -0500
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
At 12:46 +0100 2002-11-29, Terje Bless wrote:
>Christoph P”per <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>
> >In general I welcome the use of correct typography.
>
>Hmmm. I think you've convinced me to use "plain" quotes. In general, I'm
>incapable of correct typography so perhaps it's better to not attempt to
>get fancy. :-)
The correct way of quoting when it's a quote which means a citation:
block of text:
<blockquote>
<p>
...
</p>
</blockquote>
inline:
<p>... <q>citation</q> ...</p>
Rationale: It's better to use the element q for example, because it
has a correct semantic. But ALSO it will use the correct rendering
depending on the language.
I filled a bug in Mozilla a while ago
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144853
And created a test page
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=83842&action=view
Unfortunately the bug has not been fixed yet in Mozilla 1.2. :(
IE 5.2 for mac does a fairly good job at it.
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Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager
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Received on Friday, 29 November 2002 08:28:49 UTC