Re^6: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts

I also get all-doublequotes in Firefox. The standard does not seem to mandate any particular handling though, it only seems to indicate that user agents should behave accordingly.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^7: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by hardburn (Abbot) on Aug 10, 2004 at 14:56 UTC
Really, the exact quoting behavior shouldn't be left up to the HTML standard, but to your specific locale. Under en-US, nested quotations should alternate double quotes and single quotes. However, it's perfectly reasonable that another locale does it completely differently. I must say, the `<q>` tag is a really good idea, especially when you start thinking about the web as one big database. Wish browsers supported it better . . . "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:11 UTC
No, actually, the locale should only be a fallback. It really should depend on the language specified in the Q tag. For instance, `<q lang="fr">` should render with Ť...ť style quotations. If the Q tag does not specify a language, then what should matter is the language declared for the page as a whole. Only if such a declaration is missing should the locale be used. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]