I love a good article on the proper use of various HTML tags. Seriously. Anyway, check out Roger Johansson's post on Quotations and citations:
The available quotation elements aren’t really used a lot outside of web standards blogs. A probable reason, besides people not knowing about them, is less than perfect browser support for some features of the q element. That doesn’t mean it can’t be used though, so let’s take a look at how and when to use what quotation element.
Posted by Karl
November 24, 2004 03:49 PM