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Martin Smales

Why do blockquotes contain opening and closing tags as part of text as quotes are already defined semantically?

We know that < blockquote >this is a quote< /blockquote > and specifying opening and closing quotation characters (such as ” ”) as part of text for the blockquote element is not really necessary, right?

Clearleft’s testimonials are examples treating quotation marks as simply presentational.