From what I've been taught, the views regarding the comma and quotes issues can be different between American and British people.

Since this had spurned on so much of a reply, I can add my five cents as well.

Comas - I assure you, that I do not put comas on random, as some of you here tried to portray. My usage may be alien for you, but it`s entirely logical, and does not contradicts rules directly. Question here is not in the coma, per ce, as much as in sentence construction.

` vs ' - ` is apostrophe, pure and simple. ' is single quote. Thus, ` is what I use. Helps to evade misreadings.

Now, I just don`t have " ’ " handy on keyboard. Instead, I`ve got " ` ". And since using " ' " can make a lot of confusion over "Is it single quote or apostrophe?", I use " ` ". Which, by the way, is the common way in Russian net to put apostrophe, being the only handy symbol out of all three.

Well, if it`s stilistic difference, you`ll just have to forgive me for having different style, then you. As you yourself said, it bears no difference, so argument is pretty much pointless.

As for breaking quotes, I was thinking about incomplete quotes, first off - when one does not quotes the whole sentence, but only a relevant part of it. In this case, coma inside the quote might imply false termination of idea, which could be later expanded.

Besides, I`m a stickler for precision. If I quote something, there should be no punctuation of my writing inside the quotes.

I'm still having trouble visualizing this. Can you give an example? Now I'm legitimately curious.

Alice's example is right, but a bit confusing, let me try to make a very simple example.

Consider this:

"I like pies," he said. "made of meat," he continued.

This implies that he said "I like pies, made of meat" which does not make sense.

However, with the comma outside the quotes this is not a problem.

"I like pies", he said. "made of meat", he continued.

"I'm a little teapot," he said.

and assume that the speaker ended his sentence with a comma. Readers recognize that comma as a placeholder for a period.

Then you have the problem of other punctuation marks.

Are you correct in saying "There are pretty glaring mistakes in both Alice's and yours"?

putting the question mark inside the quotes would just cause confusion because it would look like a question was being quoted, not a statement.

Well, I guess, that clarity was sacrificed for calligraphy here.

alice_shadelefay: Excuse me? I just used coma for emphasing and pause. In accordance with YOUR rules.
alice_shadelefay: What flaw?
donny_d345: Find. A. Source. That. Agrees. That. Commas. Are. USED. For. Emphasis.
donny_d345: You won't.
alice_shadelefay: I JUST gave you an example.
donny_d345: No, a source.
alice_shadelefay: Find me a source, which tells my example is wrong.
donny_d345: Your example is your flawed logic. Commas CREATE emphasis. They're not placed in a sentence to encourage emphasis.
donny_d345: Alice, you're claiming commas are used as emphasis.
donny_d345: That you place them in your sentence where you'd pause.
donny_d345: This isn't in any website we've looked at. Wikipedia expressely disagreed with you.
alice_shadelefay: Don, once again. I put down coma to mark up emphased part of sentence. I dare you, find me anything that contradicts that.
donny_d345: I dared you first.
donny_d345: But, of course, you'd like me to do the more difficult search
donny_d345: It's easier to look at 20 pages about commas and not find your argument on it. It's far more difficult to find a page that specifically discusses your argument.
donny_d345: http://booksthatteach.com/books/grammar.htm
alice_shadelefay: Example, Don. Logically grounded example.,
alice_shadelefay: I don`t give a **** about RULES. I need examples.
donny_d345: That's stupid.
donny_d345: "Bob, broke a motercycle because, he couldn't find the clutch."
donny_d345: Does that still make sense without the commas?
donny_d345: Good, because it's grammatically correct without the commas.
alice_shadelefay: You placed comas wrong.
donny_d345: That's how you tend to place them, though.
alice_shadelefay: It`s "Bob broke a motorcycle, because he couldn`t find the clutch."
donny_d345: No, it isn't.
alice_shadelefay: Yes, it is. Prove it`s not.
alice_shadelefay: Coma separates two ideas.
donny_d345: They're not two ideas.
alice_shadelefay: Bob broke bike & bob didn`t found clutch.
alice_shadelefay: didn`t find.
donny_d345: BECAUSE
alice_shadelefay: Gah, I start to miss your inane times, too.
donny_d345: "Bob broke a motercycle. He couldn't find the clutch."
donny_d345: That's a seperation of ideas.
alice_shadelefay: ....And? You just shot yourself in the leg.
donny_d345: Jesus christ Alice! You just disagree and say that you're right because I can't "prove" it. There's no way to prove that you're wrong when you claim incorrect things.
donny_d345: And then I point out that they're incorrect, and offer sources. Several sources.
donny_d345: And you claim that they don't count because it's not proof.
alice_shadelefay: I already said, that I need logical reason.
alice_shadelefay: Is it that hard to understand?
donny_d345: Yes, it's very hard to understand.
donny_d345: You're definition of logical reasoning is pretty far ****ing fetched.
alice_shadelefay: Then try not to argue with lawyers. They`ll rip you to shreads.
donny_d345: Good god, you're not a lawyer.
alice_shadelefay: How so? I just told you - "Authoritative does not works. Logic does."
donny_d345: Granted, you don't have to write in my language when you're lawing.
donny_d345: OK, logically prove your point to me, then.
alice_shadelefay: I put comas where I make pauses, when I talk. Those pauses are logical separators for separate clauses, or emphasings.
donny_d345: That doesn't agree with modern English standards.
donny_d345: If you think it's logical, than ok. If you think it follows modern English standards, than you're wrong.
alice_shadelefay: It agrees perfectly with the need to convey my thoughts, no?
donny_d345: OK, you can say that. I can't disagree with that at all.
alice_shadelefay: Uh. Don, I never claimed second.
donny_d345: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html
alice_shadelefay: I say, that my coma placement is Right. I don`t say, that it`s per school standards.
donny_d345: Look at suberfluous commas
donny_d345: If by "right" you mean it fits your personal idea of "right" than so be it.
donny_d345: But those of us who use commas in the accepted english standard will be confused by your commas.
donny_d345: Because it IS difficult to understand you at times.
donny_d345: That was my initial point.

You are actually allowed to place the ? either in the inside or outside the quotation marks. Same goes with the exclamation mark.

For example:

Jeff Walters asked, "is that dflt.mat?"

Did Jaiph say to us, "I see dflt.mat"?

Everything should have a logical and concise reason, why, and for what.

"If you are trying to say, that Indie is applied to bands, who are striking it out on their own... Used to be, but now, it`s pretty commercialised, as well."