- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:47:09 -0500
- To: wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE (Holger Wahlen)
- CC: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE (Holger Wahlen) wrote: > Is there any reason why the HTML 4.0 draft refers to > initialisms as "acronyms" and even names an element this way? > [..] > Any chance to change that part and the element name? > <INITIALISM> ... </INITIALISM> may be a bit unhandy - <INIT> > perhaps? As far as it's concerned, ACRONYM = "Initialism" whereas a new word (such as "radar") is just a word. Perhaps "initialisms", acronyms and abbreviations should be put under one type of "dictionary" element that defines all of those types and others. Rob --- Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl (wlkngowl@unix.asb.com) Se habla PGP. http://www.asb.com/usr/wlkngowl
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