HTML5 re-inclusion of abbr attribute on th elements

Hi all,

FYI

there is a patch [1] for adding the abbr attribute back into html5.

it probably easier to review the patch text [2] in situ from the whatwg
spec.

I suggest if you have any comments file them on the associated bug [3]


[1]
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/fc0477a2fcacfa82d643ba0ba904dc31d3b8c2b8
[2]
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#attr-th-abbr
[3] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13614

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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG

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