- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@euronet.nl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 03:10:15 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
At 00:31 -0800 UTC, on 12/31/02, Tantek Çelik wrote: > On 12/30/02 10:55 PM, "Devon Y." <vehementpetal@hotmail.com> wrote: [...] >> Small point... IE doesn't support HTMLs' <abbr>, which means it wouldn't >> support XHTMLs' <abbr> either. > > IE5+/Mac supports <abbr>. Depends on how you define "support". IE 5.x for Mac OS kind of supports <ABBR>, in that it recognizes it and provides the user with the contents of its TITLE attribute (through a tooltip) when the user mouses over it. But its default Style Sheet does not offer the user any clue that there is a TITLE attribute to be found. It requieres an author or user Style Sheet to provide that clue. I suppose that in the strictest sense, you could therefore say Mac IE 5.x supports <ABBR>. However, when you consider this sentence from the HTML 4.01 specs "The ABBR and ACRONYM elements allow authors to *clearly indicate* occurrences of abbreviations and acronyms.", [emphasis mine] then maybe it becomes a bit of a stretch to say that Mac IE 5.x supports <ABBR>. I like how Mozilla followed iCab's example by dotted-underlining <ABBR>, and improved upon it by allowing alteration of that presentation through CSS. -- Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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