- From: John Colby <John.Colby@uce.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:21:50 -0000
- To: "Brian Kelly" <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>, "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <www-html@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Despite all the semantics it really does make a difference to this argument that IE does not recognise and treat correctly <abbr> but does recognise and treat correctly <acronym>. The mouseover will display a tooltip. It also makes a difference that <acronym> has been dropped from the proposals for XHTML 2.0. Other browsers treat each correctly. So the pragmatic approach would be to use <acronym> for both acronyms and abbreviations for all documents, although it is not semantically correct, and then when it is practicable to change the !DOCTYPE declaration for XHTML 2.0 do a global search and replace for <acronym> to <abbr>. John John Colby Lecturer, School of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Information and English Room F328a, Feeney Building, University of Central England, Franchise Street, Perry Barr, Birmingham B42 2SU Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 6937, Fax +44 (0) 121 331 6281, Mobile: 0771 114 1621
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