- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:20:40 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tina Holmboe wrote: > 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. Why would that matter? An acronym is, by definition, a word. Why would you need to specify that a word be rendered as a word? You might say that it might be written in uppercase, e.g. "NATO", but so might any word, when PEOPLE JUST SHOUT. In any case, if you want to indicate that a string be read as a word and not letter by letter or as an expanded to something, then this is is logically independent of its being or not being an acronym. An acronym is a word with a known (or assumed) etymology consisting of initial letters of words. Why would this matter, from the HTML perspective, any more than any other etymology? -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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