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Re: LYNX-DEV blockquote behavior

From: Subir Grewal
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV blockquote behavior
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 08:33:17 -0800 (PST) 
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Carl Hansen wrote:

:Nested BLOCKQUOTE seems a perfectly reasonable structure in English
:and should be supported by lynx IMO.
:
:Here's an example comparing two browsers:
:http://www.berkeleynetcentral.com/DrPseudocryptonym/destroytosave.html

DrPseudocyptonym needs a rap on his knuckles (just kidding), because the
example you gave should have been of the form:

<html>
<blockquote>Some blockquoted text</blockquote>
<cite>Above lines from the keyboard of Subir Grewal</cite>
</html>

which would have delineated the character of the last line as a citation,
clearly for the previous blockquote, and which Lynx renders as:


     Some blockquoted text
     
   Above lines from the keyboard of Subir Grewal

Where "Above...Grewal" is underlined.  You might have been more successful
if you'd have found a piece of quoted text that itself contains a
quotation.  Even then, working with the examples provided by type-setting,
I'd say it would probably be better to set off the quotation within a
quotation by using <Q> or just double quotes.  Very few books will cotain
more than one indentation for quotations, I personally do not recall
reading a book which used such a layout (and hell they've been at it for a
few hundred years).

I really don't think Lynx needs to handle nested blockquotes as you
suggest it should.  Whether the author expects nested blockquotes to be
acceptable structural markup is an interesting question, the DTD permits
it.  It might be wise to have Lynx think of all nested blockquotes as <Q>s
but if people are using BLOCKQUOTE where they should be using CITE or
simply to get more indentation, that would be counter-productive. 

address@hidden  +  Lynx 2.6  +  PGP  +  http://www.crl.com/~subir/
Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are
typed with the left hand?  Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter
keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use
of both hands.  It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is
not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears.

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