Re: Acronyms vs Abbreviations - was: New tool on Accessify - Acronym Generator

On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 04:18 AM, David Poehlman wrote:

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> from the dictionary:
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Yeah, but the people writing the HTML spec didn't consult a dictionary
-- and they are normative for HTML, while the dictionary is not.

Ergo, we are stuck with the broken and incorrect HTML spec definitions
of <acronym> and <abbr>, not the normal English language defs.

--Kynn

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