- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:41:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote: > > Perhaps a silly idea: what if abbreviations could work as an img-map > couple? That is, i.e., an <abbr> without a title could avail of a, let's > say, 'ref' attribute indicating the id of a previous <abbr> element with > a title, and the former could be 'self-closing' (i.e. <abbr ref="#foo" > />), so by default the UA would substitute it with the referenced > element content (the unexpanded abbreviation), and, at the user will > (when he/she clics on the abbreviation, or just stops the pointer, or > navigates to the abbreviation, or according to any setting in the > browser options) the abbreviation is expanded. (I guess the above won't > be agreed because of backward compatibility, though) What problem would this solve? It's not like including the abbreviation each time is a great burden. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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