Re: "ACRONYM"?

• From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:00:51 +0200 (MET DST)
• To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
• cc: Holger Wahlen <wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE>, www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970728150008.245u-100000@enoshima>

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Dave Raggett wrote:

> In the short term, it would be better to be able to indicate in
> the markup that an abbreviation/acronym should be pronounced by
> speaking each of the letters in turn rather than treating it as a
> word. The most obvious name is SPELLOUT which according to the 
> Oxford English dictionary "make out (words etc.) letter by letter".
> Perhaps the HTML 4.0 spec should replace ACRONYM by a new
> attribute on SPAN, e.g.
> 
>   The <span spellout>BBC</span> tonight reported heavy
>   shelling on the Boznian capital.

Wouldn't that make it a presentational attribute, rather suited
for CSS than for HTML?


Regards,	Martin.

Received on Monday, 28 July 1997 09:00:54 UTC