Your quotation is incorrect because the Q element inserts language-dependent quotation marks on its own. Your markup produces the following text: "« Toute forme de langage devrait être reconnue et libre d'exister sans ironie. »" At least, it should. Internet Explorer does not do it because they do not support :before and :after CSS selectors, among other useful and required recommendations. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Dubost Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:51 AM To: WHAT Working Group Mailing List Subject: Re: [whatwg] sarcasm Le 25 avr. 2007 à 08:19, Elliotte Harold a écrit : > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > >> In Western typography, there is already a tradition to mark up >> irony with quotation marks: >> Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a great president. > > There's an even stronger tradition to mark quotes with quotation > marks, and yet we have the q element. Because quote is useful not because of his punctuation but because of the possibility to give the reference of the quote. <p> <cite>Raymond Queneau</cite> said: "<q xml:lang="fr" id="ironie" cite="http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/raymond- queneau-551.php?citations"> Toute forme de langage devrait être reconnue et libre d'exister sans ironie. </q>" </p> -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
