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RE: Quote

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From: Jukka Korpela
Date: May 6, 2002 11:23PM

Elaine Nelson wrote:

> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/04.html#the_q_tag
>
> he uses a combination of the q tag and CSS...

Note that the author actually recommends the use of quotation marks as the
pragmatic solution.

Also note that on IE (on Windows), there is no indication of the quotation
being a quotation when a screen reader is used, unless the screen reader can
somehow recognize and communicate that italics is used.

Besides, the trick does not work on browsers that do not support the Q
element and do not have style sheets enabled (or have a user style sheet
overriding the relevant rule in the author style sheet).

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Jukka Korpela
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