On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:11:06 -0700, Nicholas Knight <nknight(a)runawaynet.com>
gave utterance to the following:
On Thursday 07 August 2003 12:15, Brion Vibber wrote:
<blockquote> would work, but you're not
_supposed_ to use it for
indentation of things that aren't quotes.
The 4.01 standard says 'The usage of BLOCKQUOTE to indent text is
deprecated in favor of style sheets.'
"Deprecated" doesn't mean "you can't do that", it's
closer to "avoid
doing that if possible, and if you go to a later standard, be ready to
not be able to do it". But the doctype line at the top of Wikipedia's
pages doesn't say "the latest standard", it says "HTML 4.01
Transitional", and HTML 4.01 transitional says "you can do it if you
really want to". And since we appear to be stuck on supporting browsers
that can't keep up with 5-7 year old standards, it would appear we
"really want to".
But do text browsers actually indent blockquotes, or do they use colour to
distinguish them such as they do for B, I, EM and STRONG? I think some
graphic browsers Italicize a blockquote, and some screen readers might
change voice.
There is no legitimate way to indent text via HTML, and there never has
been. So let's just write it off it for the tiny proportion of users with
non-css capable UA's rather than harming things for the vast majority.
--
Richard Grevers
A lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math