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Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 02/06/06 18:58
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:43:13 +0100, Gérard Talbot
<newsblahgroup@gtalbot.org> wrote:
> Barbara de Zoete wrote :
>> <abbr>Abbr.</abbr>.
>> <html lang="en">
>> <head>
>> <style type="text/css">
>> abbr[title] {
>> border-bottom:1px dotted maroon;
>> cursor:help; }
>> </style>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> <p>The title attribute could be of good value if a web author uses an
>> <abbr title="Abbreviation">abbr</abbr>.
>
> For the first occurence, it's possible to do it like this:
>
> <dfn><abbr title="Abbreviation">abbr</abbr> (Abbreviation)</dfn>
This is a new element for me, this 'instance definition'. Saw it appearing
in a few posts recently. So I looked it up and I like it. Haven't used it
anywhere myself, but might start to do that.
>> <p>Note though that the selector abbr[title] doesn't work in IE
>> (what else is new).</p>
>
> I really must say /want to say that
> - IE 7 beta 2 supports attribute selector and
> - IE 7 beta 2 also supports <abbr> like it should.
Really? That is good news. At least somewhere in the years to come the
majority of people might switch to a browser that supports what is todays
standard ;-)
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