RE: Acronyms vs Abbreviations - was: New tool on Accessify - Acronym Generator from Bill Mason on 2003-04-23 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from April to June 2003)

From: Bill Mason <w3c@accessibleinter.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:25:40 -0700
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030423072351.00cccde0@accessibleinter.net>

At 04:27 AM 4/23/2003, Jon Hanna wrote:
> > So, I ask, What is the difference in the end result o using either bit of
> > mark up and if none that is sugnificant, since the objective is to get the
> > long form of either out, why not reduce it to one tag and call it
> > <shortform>?
>
>Or indeed just use <abbr> since there is no acronym that isn't also an
>abbreviation.

This is already planned for XHTML 2.0.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_8.1.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
w3c@accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/

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