- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:11:01 +0000
On 12 Feb 2007, at 16:40, David Latapie wrote:
>>> The rationale was that the difference between <abbr> and
>>> <acronym> is
>>> presentational.
>> <span class="ex-acronym">CERN</span>
>> <abbr class="initialism">FBI</abbr>
>> <abbr class="acronym">NASA</abbr>
>> <abbr class="contraction">Leut.</abbr>
>
> Why do you use both <span class="ex-acronym"> and <abbr
> class="acronym">?
>
> The way I see it
>
> Abbreviation
> Hyperonym (superset) for initialisms and acronyms
> Acronym
> Abbreviation that you can pronounce as a word (NASA)
> Initialism
> Abbreviation that you can spell letter-by-letter (FBI)
I have for several years have been using the following on a few
important documents (such as my CV):
<abbr class="initialism|truncation|acronym">
<acronym> = a sub-type of abbr
Which is styled by
abbr, acronym { font-style: inherit; border-width: 0; }
@media aural, speech, spoken
{
abbr, acronym { speak: normal; }
abbr.initialism { speak: spell-out; }
abbr[title].truncation { speak: normal; content: attr(title); }
}
I considered <abbr class="acronym"> and <acronym> the same, but used
the latter on most pages because of WinIE.
- Nicholas.
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