- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:32:35 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 26 Mar, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Quoting Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
> <leandro.dutra@corp.orolix.com>:
>
>> Yes, but acronyms are pronounced as words, while all-uppercase
>> non-acronym abbreviations are spelled out. So with different acronym
>> and abbr elements a speech the user agent will know what to do,
>> roughly
>> ? obviously hybrids (eg JPEG) will need special treatment.
>
> But that is arguably a matter of aural presentation, not of the
> content itself.
True. However, unless we actually /structurally/ differentiate between
an acronym and an abbreviation there is no way that any browser can
render them differently, aurally or otherwise.
There is no conceivable point - save to be politically correct -
involved in removing elements that HAS semantic interpretation from a
markup language. Adding them is useful. Removing them far less so.
We don't need to worry about browsers running out of room for
elements, after all!
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Received on Monday, 26 March 2007 14:33:10 UTC