- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:32:11 +0000
- To: Colin Lieberman <colin@cactusflower.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 15 Mar 2007, at 15:55, Colin Lieberman wrote: > I know some folks oppose the xhtml 2 plan to get rid of <acronym>, > but are two tags really necessary? > > I think more useful would be an attribute to <abbr> that indicates > to user agents whether the abbreviation is meant to be spoken as > initials or as a word. There could be an additional optional > attribute for some other pronunciation: > > <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium" type="initial">W3C</abbr> > > <abbr title="Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell > Computers and Humans Apart" type="word">CAPCHA</abbr> > > <abbr title="Structured Query Language" type="custom" > pronounce="sequel">SQL</abbr> Surely this is truly an aural CSS issue, not an HTML one? We already have the "speak" property, and the "spell-out" value reads it how letter by letter. I do, however, agree that there is little point in having <abbr> and <acronym> – the difference between the two isn't completely clear, and is often got wrong. UAs for the sake of backwards compatibility should support both, but I see little reason in retaining this unclarity in a future spec. - Geoffrey Sneddon
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