- From: Marc Salomon <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:06:19 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
What about doing it in <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM">HTML</SPAN> this way, <SPAN CLASS="PAUTHOR">Dave Raggett</SPAN> of the <SPAN CLASS="IAUTHOR">W3C<SPAN>? This approach would have win if carefully crafted for cases where span classes and metadata elements coincide. Fight Tagitis! -<SPAN CLASS="PAUTHOR">marc</MARC> <SPAN CLASS="IAUTHOR">UCSF</SPAN> On Jul 19, 10:57, Dave Raggett wrote: > Subject: Re: Acronym for Cougar? > On reasons for adding the HTML 3.0 ACRONYM tag into Cougar: > > > It would allow HTML to be written in a way that > > would be more accessible to speech-enabled browsers. > > For example, "NPS" would be pronounced "en Pea ess", > > not "nips" > > This sounds like a good enough motivation to make it worth > while. On the same lines, it is probably worth adding some of > the other tags from HTML 3.0, e.g. ABBREV for abbreviations, > PERSON for names of people (as opposed to things), INS for > newly added text and DEL for struck out text. --
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