- From: Matthew Ratzloff <matt@builtfromsource.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Sat, March 24, 2007 9:56 am, Sandy Smith wrote: > > To mirror an earlier post, can someone explain what problem, exactly, > that removing either <acronym> or <abbr> is trying to solve? > > Is it somehow terrifically expensive for UAs to support both? > > Is it because one or the other is often misused? And if so, what is > the criteria for throwing out one of these versus another abused > element, such as <table>? > > To my mind, the barrier for deprecating or removing an existing > semantic, as opposed to presentational, tag from HTML should be very > high. Table continues to have value, whereas one of the two near-duplicate tags (Abbr and Acronym) does not. Acronym is a prime candidate for deprecation. But seriously, these two little tags should be the least of our concern at this point. -Matt
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