Re: Abbreviations and Acronyms: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft

It doesn't really make a difference. IE is barely capable of treating 
XHTML 1 properly - you need to do all sorts of nasty compatibility 
stuff (it's legal XML but it isn't particularly nice) to get around its 
non-standard ways of handling Web content. XHTML 2 is not 
backwards-compatible with old browsers anyway, so IE will presumably 
treat it as it does "real" XML (i.e. non-HTML), in which case there is 
no particular value in the parts of the HTML spec that they did 
implement.

Cheers

Chaals

Le Friday, 12 Dec 2003, à 21:21 Australia/Melbourne, John Colby a écrit 
:

> Despite all the semantics it really does make a difference to this
> argument that IE does not recognise and treat correctly <abbr> but does
> recognise and treat correctly <acronym>. The mouseover will display a
> tooltip. It also makes a difference that <acronym> has been dropped 
> from
> the proposals for XHTML 2.0. Other browsers treat each correctly.
>
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Received on Friday, 12 December 2003 05:32:59 UTC