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Re: Deprecate <acronym>

From: Chasen Le Hara <chasen@chasenlehara.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:49:03 -0700
Message-Id: <7E527EA1-FCD3-4D31-ABE4-753F08E08B7B@chasenlehara.com>
To: public-html@w3.org 

>
>> <abbr class="initialism">W3C</abbr>
>>
>> abbr.initialism {speak: spell-out; }
>>
>> <abbr class="acronym">RADAR</abbr>
>>
>> abbr.acronym {speak: normal; }
>>
>
> +1 for this methodology. This is exactly what I intended.
>
> How about adding a "type" attribute to the "abbr" element to replace
> your overloading of the "class" attribute?
>

Thank you Noah for pointing out the existence of initialisms.

+1 for <abbr type="initialism">CPU</abbr>.
-Chasen
Received on Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:42:17 GMT

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