Article:		All That We Can Leave Behind
Subject:		q tag
Date:		2003-05-05 04:35:42
From:		R. Ivan Linderman
I disagree that no one is using the q tag, although I may be the only one. Because I often create dialogue or quote literary passages, I use q to semantically mark this content. Moreover, I use it as the W3C intended, making up for all browser's failure to add appropriate quotation marks, by using JavaScript to add quotation marks at the beginning and end of q elements. This tag is often not used because it is not widely known outside the US that straight or curly quotes are not universal; that other languages use other delimiters. Additionally, if you think about it, do you want to use the same delimiter -- for example, "e; -- for marking quoted content as you do for marking strings in script, and attributes in markup? I started an article on this subject titled "Q: Bastard Child of Shameless Fortune." It's a good title. It will be easy to replace q qith quote.

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