- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:54:19 -0000
- To: "'Maurizio Boscarol'" <maurizio@usabile.it>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Maurizio Boscarol [mailto:maurizio@usabile.it] > Sent: 12 December 2003 12:29 > >I'm happy to call that an abbreviation using the less > technical sense > >of that word. > > The "term" proposal sounds good for me. I vote for a generic > "term" with his explanation. Because this can cause backward > compatibility problem, my second vote is for "abbr". In my mind, a <term> element is too vague. For example, I think some people will use such an element to isolate technical terms, or perhaps new terms in a document. (So that they can style them differently from the surrounding text.) (I can think of other uses too.) What we're talking about here is specifically something that has a longer form, so that's why I'm happy with an abbr element name (using the word 'abbreviation' ((where that last word could be another application for a <term> tag)) in its non-technical sense). That's not to say that a <term> tag would not be useful. I'm forever marking up stuff as <span class="new-term">...</span> or such.
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