- From: liorean <liorean@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:23:51 +0100
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 23/03/07, Rene Saarsoo <nene@triin.net> wrote: > As Google only lists top 19 most used elements, which > doesn't include neither abbr nor acronym, I can provide > the results of my own little survey [1], which shows, > that acronym is a bit more popular than abbr: Due to ie6w not supporting abbr, I bet. If only a quarter of the users (at best) had support for an element, I'd chose to use an almost-equivalent too, at least on any larger user facing site. > Of course, they both are quite unpopular and > there's quite a bit of noise in my research at > that level of granularity, but hopefully this > data provides some insight. > > Not that I'm in favor of acronym, but the popularity > is certainly one aspect to consider. That abbr come in at that high usage numbers compared to acronym despite the lack of support is something I would consider a vote in favour of it. -- David "liorean" Andersson
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