Re: [HTML 4.0 draft] (further) comments on ACRONYM

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Aymeric Poulain Maubant wrote:

> 
> Numerous comments have already been done here on the ACRONYM element.
> It still seems to me that this element misses an attribute... But
> first of all, the relevant extract from the draft :
[...]
> 
> as expected :
> 
>   The <ACRONYM acr="sncf"></ACRONYM> is a Society dealing with
[...]

I disagree.

The is a Society dealing with

is NOT 'as expected' and is what the older non-ACRONYM aware browsers
would render of your usage.  The extra bandwidth from repetitive use is at
most a minor issue - breaking content display is not. I also have vague
discomfort with the setting of a state variable in HTML. If 'feels' like
scripting, not HTML.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Received on Thursday, 10 July 1997 12:34:30 UTC