Hi — LWN editor here. We use <q> tags with some CSS to set off quotes from the main text. This _mostly_ works seamlessly, but a few browsers render "<q>something</q>" as ""something"". It's especially common if you copy/paste from the site.
I've considered dropping the outer quotes and using CSS before/after text to add them back in to the rendered page, but we have a huge back-catalog of articles doing it this way, and it's usually not much of an issue.
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Hi — LWN editor here. We use <q> tags with some CSS to set off quotes from the main text. This _mostly_ works seamlessly, but a few browsers render "<q>something</q>" as ""something"". It's especially common if you copy/paste from the site.
I've considered dropping the outer quotes and using CSS before/after text to add them back in to the rendered page, but we have a huge back-catalog of articles doing it this way, and it's usually not much of an issue.