Fw: <q>quotation?</q>

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-07 01:02:17

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Abrahams" <abrahams_at_[hidden]>
To: "Daryle Walker" <darylew_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: <q>quotation?</q>

> I think it's a bad idea to use this tag if popular and recently released
> browsers (e.g. IE5.5) will ignore it instead of showing quotation marks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryle Walker" <darylew_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:12 AM
> Subject: Re: <q>quotation?</q>
>
>
> > on 11/5/00 1:59 PM, David Abrahams at abrahams_at_[hidden] wrote:
> >
> > > I noticed that you replaced some uses of &quot; in operators.hpp with
> > > <q></q> pairs. I tried to use this myself thinking it would provide
> nicely
> > > matched open and close quote symbols, but IE5.5 and HTML-kit seemingly
> don't
> > > do /anything/ with <q></q> tags. Am I missing something?
> >
> > As Greg Colvin mentioned, this tag is from HTML 4.  I think I used it
once
> > (haven't looked at that part of the code in a few weeks).  It was for a
> > quotation from some other piece of work.  (I think it was about some
> famous
> > guy complaining how empty base class optimization decisions can't be
> > changed.)  Other quotations weren't from other works and weren't tagged.
> >
> > --
> > Daryle Walker
> > Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
> > darylew AT mac DOT com
> >
> >
>