Re: [HTML 4.0 draft] (further) comments on ACRONYM
Benjamin Franz (snowhare@netimages.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:34:27 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:34:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: [HTML 4.0 draft] (further) comments on ACRONYM
In-Reply-To: <199707101435.QAA18931@melimelo.enst-bretagne.fr>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970710092702.13627D-100000@ns.viet.net>
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