Posted by John Salerno on 10/12/06 00:44

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit John Salerno:
>
>> Just a little poll, I guess.
>
> Why? Are you interested in opinions (that's what you get in polls, at best),
> or facts and arguments?
>

Eh, I thought that line might get me in trouble. I'm looking for best
practice.

>> I'm curious what the best practice is for
>> labeling items with <abbr>, <acronym>, <code>, etc. when they appear
>> frequently in the text of your HTML.
>
> <abbr> and <acronym> are useless. I won't bother referring the arguments,
> since there are no factual arguments _in favor of_ using them - no tangible
> benefits that would overweigh the risks.

So you wouldn't use these for anything, such as "HTML", "CSS", "GUI" etc.?

> Huh? The only remaining item in your list is <code>, and of course you need
> to repeat it for anything that needs to be marked up as computer code. Just
> having <code>foo</code> somewhere doesn't mean that any subsequent foo is
> code, too.
>

Well, I was being general about it, but fine. I'm referring to all
"phrase" elements as well, such as <samp>, <var>, <cite>, <em>,
<strong>, <dfn>, <kbd>.

I can understand using them in larger blocks of text (such as big block
of code), but what if I have a paragraph that uses single words of code
frequently. Do you mark each of those words?

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