Quoting Posts

roamer I agree, much easier!

Shame it doesnt show up in the preview though.

Coool.

John T. Haller...especially for quotes on a single line.

This looks nice, I think it's great to organise it like this. Not only does this clarify what one is talking about, it standardizes the formatting for a reply so it's easy to tell what the reply is. I've seen so many different ways of formatting a reply, from @Username to any array of strong, em, and code tags. This is really nice!

Tim, that is human nature, if someone doesn't have something, and even if that person doesn't want it, but didn't have it, and then they gave him that thing, he will want to use it.

IN this case people didn't have a method of posting quotes with several paragraphs (I still remember a post where i had to open and close some 3 or 4 cite tags ). Now that people have it, they are crazy about it, and will want to use it. Luckily, they will only want to use it in here.

So this thread can be seen as a sandbox, that shows all most possible ways people will uses the blockquote tag, and this thread can actually allow John to troubleshoot in case it is needed.

EDIT: Also, one advice I give, is to use the src attribute in the cite element, so that the source is defined (there is no graphical change, but it is more correct).

Ryan McCue (Nested blockquotes don't look great, but they hardly ever do.) IMHO, the background and border should be scratched, and replaced with a thick left/right border. The quotation marks should be less noticeable and more washed-out, as they are just visual guides, not actual content.

I agree, actually, some CSS that might make them look better is replacing some of the properties, with the following ones:

blockquote {
background: transparent url(/sites/all/themes/portableapps2/images/close-quote.gif) no-repeat scroll right bottom;
border: 1px solid #EAEDF0;
border-left: 5px solid #EAEDF0;
padding: 0 32px 0 1em !important;
}

Ryan McCue The citation line should probably be styled differently too, perhaps as a right-aligned link to the user's profile, same text styling as the "Submitted by" line in normal comments.

Remember that sometimes not only users are quoted, so we should be sure that the styling is universal for any kind of quotes, like other places online, books, and so on.

I'd also like to inform that the current code for styling will make that all cite elements inside a blockquote are styled wrongly. For example:

User1 Then she said Hi!.

My advice for CSS3 capable browsers is to replace blockquote cite { ... } with blockquote p:first-child > cite:first-child, blockquote > cite:first-child { ... }.

In other browsers, some PHP or javascript to detect their capabilities and adding a special class to the first cite element is the ideal thing...

Regarding that a user may forget to provide a cite element, it would be a nice idea to provide some PHP to add a blank cite element when there is none on the beginning of the blockquote.

Also, in my opinion, when quoting other users on the forums, we should direct the scr attribute to the comment where they said that. For example:

<blockquote><cite src="https://portableapps.com/comment/reply/18069/111367#comment-111367">Ryan McCue</cite> (Nested blockquotes don't look great, but they hardly ever do.) IMHO, the background and border should be scratched, and replaced with a thick left/right border. The quotation marks should be less noticeable and more washed-out, as they are just visual guides, not actual content.</blockquote>