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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/23/06 16:33
Toby Inkster wrote:
> jojo wrote:
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>> No, it definitely is *not*. An image just expands the loading time of a
>> webpage, so try to avoid it whenever possible. There is a tag for quotes
>> in HTML (<q>, you already named it...), so why don't you use it?
>
> Do you actually understand what a pull quote is?!
>
> A pull quote is a part of the text which has been duplicated and pulled
> out of the normal flow. If you include this content in a Q element amongst
> the normal flow of text then a non-CSS browser, or a screen reader, will
> read the pull-quote mid-flow, which will be confusing for the reader. By
> including it in an image with alt="", the pull-quote becomes entirely a
> matter of presentation, which is how things should be.
>
> Consider the following in a screen reader or, say, Lynx:
>
> http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/pull-quotes/1.strict
Not surprisingly, IE6 doesn't support the 'quotes' property! Any better
support in 7?
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Jonathan
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