- From: Keith Bowes <keith_bowes@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:56:06 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
If there were a way to tell a user agent how to pronounce a word, would it not be more sensible to extend aural CSS and use the Internation Phonetic Alphabet? -----Original Message----- > This means that ACRONYM should also have a title attribute > which expends it into its canonical form. But on top of that, there should > be another attribute with pronunciation hints. I don't think that's necessary. TITLE should suffice. Unless, of course, you have a UA that understands phonetic (sp?) spellings and you want to create a new element and/or attribute that tells a UA exactly how to say something: <word phon="ghoti" dict="fish">fish</word> The PHON attribute, contains the phonetic spelling. The DICT attribute would be a dictionary spelling of fish. Mine's not accurate, I don't think, because the pronounciations I see at http://www.dictionary.com seem to differ from those you would see in a dictionary like Websters, IIRC.
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