Re: The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

Gunnar Bittersmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.internationalization.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2016-04-27 20:24 UTC, Asmus Freytag (c) wrote:

> I suspect that getting "nice" quotation marks from ASCII-only input was
> a big driver. That added a convenience not needed for other punctuation.

But that might lead authors to inappropriately use the `q` element for 
the sake of convenience in places where they shouldn’t, i.e. for “nice” 
in your sentence which is not a quote.

Gunnar
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