Re: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts

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Re^2: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2004 at 13:45 UTC
What are they good for? Is <del> the "semantic" counterpart to <strike>? What do the others map to? Yes. INS is to U as DEL is to STRIKE. They are useful when you update a node. Q is a tag to produce quotation-marks in a "semantic" fashion, but it's poorly supported by the browsers. See this HTML specification for more details. Here's the section about Q.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 10, 2004 at 13:50 UTC
If the browsers don't really support Q wouldn't that mean that we'd prefer people here to continue to use <blockquote>? It isn't as if our use of Q is going to cause browsers support to improve. So shouldn't Q be taken off that list? I would assume that'd mean we'd prefer people not use it since it doesn't really work. What is the browser support-state for INS and DEL? I assume they are as well supported as STRIKE, right? If not, why are we introducing them?	[reply]
Re^4: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:03 UTC
First, Q is for a different purpose than Blockquote. Yes, if browsers don't support Q, we shouldn't really use it in post, but that's no reason for not allowing it. I'd guess the new table tags (thead, tfoot, tbody, col, colgroup) are not well supported either, but they are allowed. (Also super-search for `<q>` and see that a few people have used it even when it was not allowed.) I don't really know how much the tags are supported in different browsers. If we can get information about many browsers and see that Q is not supported, we should put a note in the allowed tags list that it's deprecated, but we should definitely not deny it. Firefox shows `<Q>` properly as a quotation mark. Here's a <Q>test quote</Q>. If you have time, try this in different versions of IE, NS, and other browsers, and if it does not work in many of them, convince the gods to make Q deprecated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:05 UTC
Re^6: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:23 UTC
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Re^6: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts (drop Q) by tye (Sage) on Aug 10, 2004 at 18:37 UTC
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Re^5: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by hardburn (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:42 UTC
Re^6: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:47 UTC
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Re^2: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 16:55 UTC
The best thing is that I can spell my name with three q's now: demerph<q>q</q>. I've always wanted to be able to do that. :-p --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi}	[reply]