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Re: Deprecate <acronym>

From: Noah Slater <nslater@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:54:30 +0000
Message-ID: <9ea1c1180703241254n2baaf779m890fc6d734458c38@mail.gmail.com>
To: matt@builtfromsource.com
Cc: public-html@w3.org


How about adding a type attribute to abbr and dropping acronym?

Type could then be enumerated with:

 1) acronym
 2) initialism

This makes more semantic sense IMO.

Noah

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Received on Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:33:53 GMT

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