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#1 2012-11-17 13:00:26
- Mr. Alex
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<q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
Hi all!
There are articles about citation in HTML and a lot of them say using <q></q> tags is not recommended due to some old or rare browsers cannot display quotation marks around <q>such text</q>. Do you have real examples when browsers couldn't do that if web developer specified lang of the page (<html lang=".."></html>)? Ever faced this problem in real life?
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#2 2012-11-17 13:40:29
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Re: <q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
As a general rule: Don't write html using workarounds for old crappy browsers. Tell your users to upgrade their browser instead.
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#3 2012-11-17 14:30:41
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Re: <q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
That's all general recommendations. Thanks. But I would like to know if anyone these days really experienced this problem.
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#4 2012-11-17 15:14:02
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Re: <q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
Since <q> is not often used i doubt you will get a lot of feedback other than what Mr. Elendig said. <q> should be fully supported from IE8 and up, IE6 and 7 will render any styling but won't add the quotation marks. Not a real problem i would personally say.
a lot of them say using <q></q> tags is not recommended
What is "a lot of them" and how old are those articles?
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#5 2012-11-17 15:25:06
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Re: <q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
Ah, just read a few during about a year. How old are them - haven't looked for date...
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#6 2012-11-18 01:58:15
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Re: <q> tag in HTML, how often do users face problems displaying quotes?
You shouldn't really read any guide predating html5 either these days 
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