- From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 07:57:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Philippe-Andre Prindeville once wrote... > > The rendering of ACRONYM is of the most minor importance compared to > its usefulness in generating indicies for automatic searches and for > processing by knobots. > > What is the use of a search engine that doesn't turn up documents > discussing "MIT" when you ask for a list of all pertinent information > relating to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology? Or such > software that gives you heaps of info on the Ministry of Industry > and Technology (of Montenegro???) when you were interested in the > above mentioned engineering school? > > At this point, the rendering of "MIT" because insignificant... since > you probably won't be looking at the right info anyway. These comments seem to indicate that ACRONYM needs an attribute EXPANSION, so that identical acronyms can be distinguished. <acronym expansion="Massachusetts Institute of Technology>MIT</acronym>. Although it does lose something in ease-of-typing. Perhaps CLASS is a better way of doing this? The acronym tag does lose some of its usefulness of there isn't some way of distinguishing them, or relating them to their expansion. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%%
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