- From: (wrong string) äper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:46:02 +0100
- To: "Alexander Savenkov" <w3@hotbox.ru>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Alexander Savenkov: > Hello Christoph, everyone, > >>>> 8.1. The abbr element >>>> Example: <abbr title="id est" replace="that is">i. e.</abbr>. > >> Actually "alt" was introduced for such tasks back when img was still around. > > Well, the lines you quoted here are actually *yours* :) I know. I've no problem with correcting myself. >> point is, that I use title on other elements for different tasks than >> providing a substitute. It's inconsequent to use it as such on abbr. > > I quite agree, but then what you need is to rename the attribute, not > to add another one. title is a common attribute that should not be removed. >> <p xml:lang="de">Die <abbr xml:lang="en" title="Organization of >> Petrol Exporting Countries" alt="Organisation Erdöl exportierender >> Länder">OPEC</abbr> hat eine Verringerung der Erdölfördermenge >> beschlossen.</p> > > Now you employed 'alt'. How can a UA know the 'alt' is in German? > Well, you would say that the <p>'s language shows that. Indeed. > Let's look at the XML1SE more closely [1]: Although this is about XHTML2, I guess it's already such defined in XML 1.0. > "A special attribute named xml:lang may be inserted in documents to > specify the language used in the contents >>>and attribute values<<< > of any element in an XML document." Wasn't it possible to override this in the spec? >> The need for pre is becoming less, but it's still there. > > I don't think so. If you really need those ascii-poems or passages > from some other fixed-width source use paragraphs and CSS. That's not correct if the poem layout carries meaning, thus at most using would be okay. >>>> 10. XHTML List Module >>>> name ist not only a bad choice, > >> it's been renamed to label, already, > > Reminds me of the form elements. Not a good choice either. ACK. Christoph Päper
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