- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:25:48 +1100
James Graham wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: > >> Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the >> reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to >> be an abbreviation. > > I agree, unless using <abbr> with no title is useful to get the correct > rendering of abbreviations in non-visual media. Using <abbr> without a title would be useful if it automatically referred to a previous instance with the title attribute. e.g. You could mark up the first occurance as like this <abbr title="As Far as I Know">AFAIK</abbr> Then, later in the document, you could use it without the title attribute <abbr>AFAIK</abbr> and a UA could allow the user to discover the expansion. This idea is already somewhat supported in the current draft, but requires that it references the defining term of a previously marked up <dfn>, rather than just another occurrence of the same abbreviation. IMHO, that part of the spec needs fixing. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dfn http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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