Re: LYNX-DEV blockquote behavior

[Carl Hansen]

root wrote:
>
> redistribution point wrote:
> >
> > In a discussion about HTML in Usenet, someone was saying that
> > <BLOCKQUOTE>..</BLOCKQUOTE> is ideally suited for quoting
> > attributed text. 
snip
> Fortunately,
> it isn't used much yet.
>

That's what you think.

Foteos Macrides wrote:
snip
>
>       Lynx has always supported BLOCKQUOTE as a block level element,
> as in all DTDs, not as character level markup.
snip
>       Lynx's style for that block is one blank line above, one blank
> line below, and greater than normal left and right margins.  However,
> Lynx does not support nested BLOCKQUOTE or BQ elements.
>
>                               Fote
>

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

n*tscape:

      So closely entwined were some populated localities with
      the tentacles of the VC base area, in some cases actually
      integrated into the defenses, and so sympatheic were
      some of the people to the VC that the only way to establish
      control short of constant combat operations among the
      people was to remove the people and destroy the village.... 

      That it was infinitely better in some cases to move people
      from areas long sympathetic to the Viet Cong was amply
      demonstrated later by events that occurred when the
      discipline of an American company broke down at a place
      called My Lai. 

            --General Westmoreland in his memoir A
            Soldier Reports, as quoted in The Tunnels of
            Cu Chi, Mangold and Penycate, 1985, p 168.



"On 8 January 1967 the village of Ben Suc -- former population about
3,500 -- was wiped off the face of the earth."
p 165. 

(The Berkeley Public Library has 3 copies of The Tunnels of Cu Chi, one
of which is inscribed: 
"Gift from Country Joe MacDonald".)


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lynx2.6:

                                         destroy the village in order to save it
 
     So closely entwined were some populated localities with the
     tentacles of the VC base area, in some cases actually integrated
     into the defenses, and so sympatheic were some of the people to the
     VC that the only way to establish control short of constant combat
     operations among the people was to remove the people and destroy the
     village....
 
     That it was infinitely better in some cases to move people from
     areas long sympathetic to the Viet Cong was amply demonstrated later
     by events that occurred when the discipline of an American company
     broke down at a place called My Lai.
 
     --General Westmoreland in his memoir A Soldier Reports, as quoted in
     The Tunnels of Cu Chi, Mangold and Penycate, 1985, p 168.
 
     __________________________________________________________________
 
   "On 8 January 1967 the village of Ben Suc -- former population about
   3,500 -- was wiped off the face of the earth."
   p 165.
 
   (The Berkeley Public Library has 3 copies of The Tunnels of Cu Chi, one
   of which is inscribed:
   "Gift from Country Joe MacDonald".)
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Lynx could use a little more indentation, perhaps as well. 

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