[wp-testers] Quote?

[shelby at fauxzen.com]

I think both would be great, because there are a lot of times when I quote
some text, and then also when writing like a mock letter its nice to have
things indented.

> 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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