1061 - nested quotes not yet supported (<q> CSS quoting)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24861

(Core :: Layout, enhancement, P2)

Description

[kipp]

[This is just a reminder: peter, reassign this to kipp when you have implemented
the css2 content attributes - thanks]

Comment 1

[kipp]

*** Bug 1138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Note.
For the Q element's ua.css declaration, the :before and :after
pseudo-elements and the quotes property will be needed, as well
as the content property mentioned above.

(Subtly altered summary so that this bug is easier to find using
a regexp search in a bugzilla query.)

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Added URI of duplicate bug (1138)

Comment 4

[leger]

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

per leger, assigning QA contacts to all open bugs without QA contacts according
to list at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

Comment 6

[sujay]

claudius,re-assigning some of Greg's open bugs to you.

Comment 7

[Peter Linss]

CSS2 content properties are now in the style context

Comment 8

[troy]

Q tag is implemented, and it uses :before (content: open-quote) and :after
(content: close-quote) specified in ua.css

We also pay attention to the 'quotes' property to determine what to display for
the quotes.

I'm marking this REMIND, because the remaining piece of work to do is to handle
nested quotes. We may, or may not, do this for the first version

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Just out of interest, how difficult is the nesting thing to do?

Comment 10

[troy]

The basic code is pretty easy to write, although it requires some changes to
pass the quote nesting level down as we recurse the content model. That's a
couple of days of work. The much larger piece of work is making it work
incrementally as the content model (or style info) changes. That's probably a
week to a week and a half worth of work

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Ok. Reducing priority. I'm leaving the severity though, as this is a spec
compliance issue. The milestone may need to be changed.

A test page for nested quotes is available at:
   http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/eviltests/content/2.html

BTW: When this is implemented, special care should be taken with absolute
positioning. I'm not sure if the spec is clear about this or not, but it seems
to me that the nesting level should *not* spill into absolutely positioned
content. This should probably be raised in [e-mail].

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

[Missed M5. Removing target milestone. Updating summary.]

A test page for this is at:
   http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/internet/eviltests/content/2.html

Generated counter support is currently waiting in bug 3247.

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

[Fixing severity/priority...]

Comment 14

[troy]

*** Bug 5554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Migrating from {css2} to css2 keyword. The {css1}, {css2}, {css3} and {css-moz}
radars should now be considered deprecated in favour of keywords.
I am *really* sorry about the spam...

Comment 16

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Attachment: test-case for bug 1061 and bug 16206

Comment 17

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 35700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[B.K. DeLong]

Besides making sure nested quotes, don't forget implementing both the "lang" 
and "dir" attributes and their associated values. I hate to add more this 
implementation but support for International languages is part of Web 
accessibility. Being able to specify <Q lang="fr"> and have the quotation marks 
be based on &laquo; &raquo; or &lsaquo; &rsaquo; is quite important.

I have examples here:
http://www.zotgroup.com/development/test-suites/html401/nn60b1/q-element.html

I hope to have examples of actual usage with different languages soon.

W3C specs:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#language-info

Comment 19

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

The testcase attached to this bug includes examples in different languages.

Comment 20

[troy]

*** Bug 35725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

> Being able to specify <Q lang="fr"> and have the quotation marks 
> be based on &laquo; &raquo; or &lsaquo; &rsaquo; is quite important.

It would actually be wrong, quoting styles are based on the _surrounding_ 
language and not the language of the quote -- "oui", not <<non>>.

That relies on us supporting CSS2's ":lang" pseudo-class which I believe is not
likely to be implemented by Netscape engineers before First Customer Ship (FCS).

Comment 22

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Troy no longer with us; marking Future, helpwanted, reassigning to nobody.

Comment 23

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

That should be [e-mail], not netscape.com.

Comment 24

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

As per meeting with ChrisD today, taking QA.

Comment 25

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 45401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 26

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24861 ***

Comment 27

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Verifying as duplicate of bug filed fifteen months after this one.