Scripsit Ben C:
It would in a sense be more logical to use markup for a sentence rather
than a punctuation mark, but on the practical side, which of them would
you more probably want to style? (Apart from the extra spacing discussed
here; it can be added in either case.) Well, maybe there's no
difference.
But it would indeed be a bit silly to omit punctuation from the content
and rely on CSS for adding it - even if we don't consider the lack of
support. In particular, speech browsers would read the text
continuously, with no breaks or change of tone at sentence breaks, since
they would see no sentence breaks.
Things would be different if HTML had <sentencemark up from the
beginning, with due browser support even when CSS is off. But that
happened in a parallel universe only.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
A neater way of doing it might be to surround each sentence with <span
class="sentence ">...</span>.
>
Then use
>
.sentence { padding-right: 0.25em }
.sentence:after { content: "." }
>
Or not bother with the :after (which is unsupported in IE probably,
and a bit silly here anyway) and just type the .s in.
class="sentence ">...</span>.
>
Then use
>
.sentence { padding-right: 0.25em }
.sentence:after { content: "." }
>
Or not bother with the :after (which is unsupported in IE probably,
and a bit silly here anyway) and just type the .s in.
than a punctuation mark, but on the practical side, which of them would
you more probably want to style? (Apart from the extra spacing discussed
here; it can be added in either case.) Well, maybe there's no
difference.
But it would indeed be a bit silly to omit punctuation from the content
and rely on CSS for adding it - even if we don't consider the lack of
support. In particular, speech browsers would read the text
continuously, with no breaks or change of tone at sentence breaks, since
they would see no sentence breaks.
Things would be different if HTML had <sentencemark up from the
beginning, with due browser support even when CSS is off. But that
happened in a parallel universe only.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
