- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:44:42 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
John Whelan wrote: > > My guess, based mostly on the fact that 1) ACRONYM is better supported > by browsers and 2) "abbreviation" is a more generic term, is that > ACRONYM was invented first as a proprietary extension with the intent > of marking up presentational ideas like putting acronyms in small > caps, and when the W3C incorporated it into HTML4, they decided that > its use to provide expansions to acronyms (via the TITLE attribute) > also applied to more general abbreviations, whence the ABBR element. > Starting from scratch, I at least would have only defined ABBR, as > many people consider acronyms (a language-dependent concept anyway) > to be a subset of abbreviations. > > Is this close to the truth? I don't think so. HTML 3.0 had both an ACRONYM and ABBREV element before browsers had implemented either. See <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/logical.html>. -- Liam Quinn A Real Validator for Windows, http://arealvalidator.com Web Design Group, http://www.htmlhelp.com
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