Re: Acronyms and abbreviations revisited

Jason wrote:

> Recently I have found time to read some sections of the HTML 4.0 draft,
> now that it is publicly available. I have noticed that the suggestion for
> an ACRONYM element has been included, and that abbreviations are to be
> handled by client-side dictionaries. It is suggested that link elements in
> the document's head could provide references to dictionaries for
> specialised vocabularies. However, in the discussion of link types, no
> type value is given for abbreviation dictionaries. One solution might be:
> <link rel="abbreviation" href="dictionary.html">
> where "dictionary.html" is an HTML document in which each abbreviation and
> its expansion is given in a definition list.

I think this is a reasonnable request and I'm forwarding it to the
HTML working group (who still has open issues from us on the media
type extension and the cascading style/alternate rule).

I'll take the opportunity of this message to say that this HTML 4.0
public release is not a W3C "recommendation" yet (not even "proposed
recommendation"), it is just the announce of the availibility of the
public draft, and more importantly, of the version number (so that
companies can start claiming conformance with 4.0...)

This means we're still on hook for giving input to the HTML WG.

Received on Friday, 11 July 1997 07:08:59 UTC