Re: <q>quotation?</q>

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-08 13:27:21

Your browser doesn't show it?  That's weird since my copy of Internet
Explorer 5.0 _does_ show the quotes.  Maybe you're using the Windows version
and, for some reason, MS didn't copy the feature from the Mac version.
Maybe it's controlled by a configuration option.  The browser iCab also
shows the quotes.  (I haven't tested Netscape.)  BTW, what's the HTML-kit?

on 11/7/00 12:56 AM, David Abrahams at abrahams_at_[hidden] wrote:

> 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.

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Daryle Walker
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