- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:34:50 +0200
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> Just a few issues regarding the use of abbr and dfn elements. >> >> *The abbr Element's title Attribute* >> >> I think the title attribute should also be allowed to be omitted from >> the abbr element if there is another abbr element with a title attribute >> for the same abbreviation in the document. This would be very useful >> for cases where the same abbreviation is used multiple times, but is not >> defined (using <dfn>) anywhere in the document. > > Why would that instance not use <dfn>? It's quite common to use abbreviations without defining what they mean the first time they're used in each document. So in a document that discusses, for example, something about HTML and marks up the first instance as <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr>, but doesn't actually define what HTML is, it wouldn't be appropriate to use <dfn>. The idea was that subsequent instances of of the abbreviation would be marked up without the title attribute, but that would only be useful with the cross-referencing feature. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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