[wp-testers] Quote?

[Doug Stewart]

I think the problem here is that, symantically, "indent" and "quote"
are two wholly different beasts.  "Indent" is simple formatting - I
could conceive of several good situations in which one would want to
simply indent text.  "Quoting", however, has a very specific
connotation - you are sourcing someone else's words and, as such, it
should be marked up differently, at least by convention.

I heartily advocate for both a "quote" and an "indent" button if that
will please all comers, but if it's one or the other, I'd adamantly
hold that "quote" is the proper of the two.

On 11/17/05, Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The common method for inserting a blockquote in IE and Mozilla is
> > document.execCommand("Indent"...), which is why many WYSIWYG editors
> > call it Indent. The Outdent command is similar.
>
> That's fine, but the ordinary user is going to end up producing
> blockquote tags to style his or her text with indentation (which may
> or may not work, depending on the css).  Encouraging this seems out of
> character for WordPress; after all, the bundled themes include links
> to XHTML validators.
>
> Since a relatively simple yet semantically correct solution is
> available for indentation, why does TinyMCE do this?
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