Re: definitions and aliasing

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
> We use @title on abbr and acronym to provide an expanded title for all
> matching abbr and acronyms.  Which is great.  When this appear in a dfn, the
> dfn also inherits their @title (e.g., <dfn><abbr title="My Long
> Term">MLT</abbr></dfn>).  I feel like this is a correct use of @title, and
> therefore should not require a warning.  I also feel like if people want to
> have aliases for this, they should do it using @lt on the dfn element.   Any
> objections to encouraging that behavior in the documentation?

No objection here.

(And I'm gonna remove Bikeshed's warning about this soon, so people
can use title='' for what it's intended for without Bikeshed
complaining.  The BS ecosystem has fixed itself, I believe.)

~TJ

Received on Monday, 20 July 2015 21:08:57 UTC