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From: Elaine Nelson
Date: May 6, 2002 2:17PM

I found this little tidbit today which might be of interest in this discussion:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/04.html#the_q_tag

he uses a combination of the q tag and CSS...

from the entry:
"IE sees the italics declaration, ignores the normal text declaration because it's buggy, and ignores the quotes declaration because it's stupid, then renders quotations in italics. Standards-compliant browsers like Opera, Mozilla, and IE/Mac see the italics declaration and the normal text declaration, which cancel each other out, then see the quotes declaration and surround quotations with curly quotes. Text browsers like Lynx ignore all stylesheets, but Lynx still sees the Q tag and correctly surrounds quotations with straight quotes."

Seems like a relatively elegant solution to me. And I'd recommend Dive Into Mark for both thoughts about accessibility and interesting thinking in general.

Elaine Nelson
http://www.pierce.ctc.edu | http://www.epersonae.com
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