Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
On 5/28/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> On 5/27/07, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>> I don't think this is a very natural use of the <q> element. A
>> thumbnail isn't really like a quote of a prose fragment. Consider
>> that you would never put a thumbnail in quotation marks.
>
> True... but you don't have to have the <q> elements put quotes around
> the thumbnail.
[snip]
Hmm. I think Maciej does have a strong point about interoperability
here. Removing the quotation punctuation with CSS does not help those
with user-designated styles or UAs that ignore such CSS: e.g. text
browsers and screen readers. The question to ask yourself is: if you
could not remove the quotation punctuation and layout, would you still
use <q> and <blockquote>? If a screen reader read (for example):
A text browser can NOT see the graphical thumbnail anyways. It will
see the "alt" text of the thumbnail. And putting the "alt" text in
quotes seems OK with me.
(It's only the putting the graphical thumbnail in quotes that seems wrong.)
Ah. Okay, I hadn't understood that's what you were saying. I think
putting the thumbnail alternative text in quotation punctuation is
potentially problematic unless the alternative text is actually a
quotation from the video's dialogue.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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