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

I believe there was also a discussion many years ago also about the
different definitions from non-U.S. and non-English dictionaries - and
hence both ABBR and ACRONYM were kept.  (probably a good bit of trivia) But
as many have pointed out -  who cares if the mark-up has the same effect.
We should focus on what mark-up is needed and why the present spec isn't
sufficient.  For example, nesting abbreviations/acronyms is perhaps a
legitimate request.

Today in HTML 4, attributes cannot contain mark-up, not sure about XHTML 2

Regards,
Phill Jenkins
IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center
http://www.ibm.com/able

Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2003 19:37:09 UTC