- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:19:25 +0200
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Tina Holmboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:44:16PM -0500, Barry Rader wrote:
>
>> Using Jukka's Method I could have to scroll up some 500 lines to see
>> the first instance.
>
> It gets better. Given that you may not arrive at the content where
> the content start, you might not even know it /has/ been expanded
> somewhere.
If you jump into the middle of some page, you cannot expect to start
reading it smoothly. Why would abbreviations and acronyms deserve some
_special_ treatment? Strange _terms_ are much more difficult, especially
if they are common words in uncommon meanings.
> So either the author need to expand the abbreviation/acronym at
> every single instance, or he/she uses something like the abbr and
> acronym elements.
You _would_ then be expanding them at every single instance, just in a
title attribute (which will be missed by most visitors).
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:19:12 UTC