[whatwg] sarcasm

Charles Iliya Krempeaux supercanadian at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 17:36:38 PDT 2007


Hello,

On 4/24/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>
> > In Western typography, there is already a tradition to mark up irony
> > with quotation marks:
> >
> > Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a "great" president.
>
> There's an even stronger tradition to mark quotes with quotation marks,
> and yet we have the q element.
>

It would be interesting if such a new <sarcasm> element would provide a
method of specifying the real meaning.

For example...

    <p>
        That's <sarcasm meaning="the smallest thing I've ever
seen">huge</sarcasm>!
    </p>


See ya

-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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