- From: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:15:27 +0200
> The point of <abbr> is to expand the acronym, not to just mark up what is > an acryonym or abbreviation. Doesn't this claim that the general information that some text is an abbreviation (w/o an expanded form) is basically useless? And is "<abbr>ISS</abbr>" not more useful since less ambiguous than "ISS" (same abbreviation) and "ISS" (German imperative for "to eat" in capitals), and be it just for AT, pronunciation and a scent of semantics? And why do we need to change what HTML 4 left "open" anyway in the first place; I'm still not convinced that "indicates" really /needs/ to be replaced by "expands": ABBR: Indicates an abbreviated form (e.g., WWW, HTTP, URI, Mass., etc.). [1] [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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