Jim Henderson escribió:
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:56 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> Or use <q> HTML tag (ass-u-ming the browser supports it), which
>> (standard says) will put the correct quotes for the current language,
>> even handling nesting.
> 
> Assuming also that you post in HTML, which on newsgroups is generally 
> considered bad form.

That was a half-joke.

Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards, yet 
people use it on newsgroups :)

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:56 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>>> Or use <q> HTML tag (ass-u-ming the browser supports it), which
>>> (standard says) will put the correct quotes for the current language,
>>> even handling nesting.
>>
>> Assuming also that you post in HTML, which on newsgroups is generally 
>> considered bad form.
> 
> That was a half-joke.
> 
> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards, yet 
> people use it on newsgroups :)

How about <div id="sarcasm"> ? :-)

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Bill Pragnell escribió:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>> That was a half-joke.
>>
>> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards, 
>> yet people use it on newsgroups :)
> 
> How about <div id="sarcasm"> ? :-)

Then you can't have multiple sarcasms per post, since IDs must be 
unique. 'class' may work though :)

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And lo on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:26:21 -0000, Nicolas Alvarez  
<nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> did spake, saying:


>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>
>>> That was a half-joke.
>>>
>>> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards,  
>>> yet people use it on newsgroups :)
>>  How about <div id="sarcasm"> ? :-)
>
> Then you can't have multiple sarcasms per post, since IDs must be  
> unique. 'class' may work though :)

Sarcasm can't be used with class, you must upgrade to wit instead.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Bill Pragnell escribió:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>
>>> That was a half-joke.
>>>
>>> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards, 
>>> yet people use it on newsgroups :)
>>
>> How about <div id="sarcasm"> ? :-)
> 
> Then you can't have multiple sarcasms per post, since IDs must be 
> unique. 'class' may work though :)

...or be more specific... to whit:

<div id="irony">
<div id="satire">
<div id="stinging rhetoric">

:)

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Phil Cook wrote:
> Sarcasm can't be used with class, you must upgrade to wit instead.

Now *that* is funny!

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:32:57 -0000, "Phil Cook"
<phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:

>
>Sarcasm can't be used with class, you must upgrade to wit instead.

Sarcasm can't be used with class, you must upgrade to a guillotine instead :)

Regards
	Stephen

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:50:15 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:56 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> 
>>> Or use <q> HTML tag (ass-u-ming the browser supports it), which
>>> (standard says) will put the correct quotes for the current language,
>>> even handling nesting.
>> 
>> Assuming also that you post in HTML, which on newsgroups is generally
>> considered bad form.
> 
> That was a half-joke.

Ah, I was humorically challenged yesterday for some reason, and forgot 
the smiley as well. :-)

> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards, yet
> people use it on newsgroups :)

True.... :-)

Jim

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:32:57 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:26:21 -0000, Nicolas Alvarez
> <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Bill Pragnell escribió:
>>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That was a half-joke.
>>>>
>>>> Note that <sarcasm> is not considered a valid tag by W3C standards,
>>>> yet people use it on newsgroups :)
>>>  How about <div id="sarcasm"> ? :-)
>>
>> Then you can't have multiple sarcasms per post, since IDs must be
>> unique. 'class' may work though :)
> 
> Sarcasm can't be used with class, you must upgrade to wit instead.

Nice one, Phil. :-)

Jim

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> andrel escribió:
>> With a conical answer of: 'Why the "?"?'?
> 
> Nitpick: afaik, quotes are supposed to be used the other way around. 
> First double quotes.
Not in Matlab, and that is what I write most. I could have gone for 
double quotes in stead of double quotes (English might be a bit 
ambiguous here) and written '''''?''''?''?'*. Yet, I think I liked the 
regular '?' better.

> 
> With a coMical answer of: "Why the '?'?"?
Intended was canonical but it could have been a typo for that as well.
> 
> Or use <q> HTML tag (ass-u-ming the browser supports it), which 
> (standard says) will put the correct quotes for the current language, 
> even handling nesting.
Using <q> would have spoiled the effect of having a string (no pun 
intended) of punctuation marks.


* This is getting to look like some of our old matlab code. In matlab 
you have callback strings that are interpreted as commands, so they can 
contain functions with strings as parameters, some of which are commands 
in itself... I think we had pathological cases of 16 quotes in a row. I 
am glad I changed my style a bit.

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