Re: Error in HTML 4.01: invalid example for ABBR from Steven Pemberton on 2009-09-23 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 2009)

From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:29:08 +0200
To: "Kristof Zelechovski" <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>, www-html-editor@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.u0pmaucjsmjzpq@steven-750g>

Thanks. Indeed the content of the element should be D<sup>a</sup>.  
However, there are no plans to reissue the HTML4 spec, so this mistake  
will not be corrected.

Best wishes,

Steven Pemberton


On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:18:22 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski  
<giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl> wrote:

> The HTML 4.01 Specification[1] contains the following example[2]
>
> <ABBR lang="es" title="Do&ntilde;a">Do&ntilde;a</ABBR>
>
> This is wrong: a word is not an abbreviation for itself.
>
> Please fix.
>
> Chris
>
>
>   _____
>
> [1] HTML 4.01 Specification  
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224>
>
>
> [2]
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR>
> 9.2.1 Phrase elements
>

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