- From: Jonathan Worent <jworent@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:11:48 -0800 (PST)
I can see what everyones reasoning for not requiring the title (I change my vote :) --- Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: > James Graham wrote: > > Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > > >> Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the > >> reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to > >> be an abbreviation. > > > > I agree, unless using <abbr> with no title is useful to get the correct > > rendering of abbreviations in non-visual media. > > Using <abbr> without a title would be useful if it automatically > referred to a previous instance with the title attribute. > > e.g. > > You could mark up the first occurance as like this > > <abbr title="As Far as I Know">AFAIK</abbr> > > Then, later in the document, you could use it without the title attribute > > <abbr>AFAIK</abbr> > > and a UA could allow the user to discover the expansion. This idea is > already somewhat supported in the current draft, but requires that it > references the defining term of a previously marked up <dfn>, rather > than just another occurrence of the same abbreviation. IMHO, that part > of the spec needs fixing. Would <dfn><abbr title="As Far as I Know">AFAIK</abbr></dfn> satisfy this? > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dfn > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr > > -- > Lachlan Hunt > http://lachy.id.au/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates (http://voice.yahoo.com)
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