- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:31:39 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 26 Mar, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 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
You don't. What we need to specify is what a word /is/; the rendering
isn't particularly interesting.
We can argue whether it was too fine-grained putting both ABBR and
ACRONYM in HTML in the first place, but this discussion is about what
to take out.
I don't agree in taking out elements that HAVE a semantic
interpretation. It smells too much like the MENU fiasco.
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