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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 02/08/06 02:00
Jukka K. Korpela wrote :
> John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
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> it's perhaps just
> a lesser problem that IE 6 does not support it at all.
Too late! IE 7 beta 2 supports <abbr> :)
> Most importantly, when authors play with <abbr>, they forget to do
> important things. Like explain their abbreviations in normal prose that
> is visible to everyone.
How about
<dfn><abbr title="Abbreviation">abbr</abbr> (Abbreviation)</dfn>
then?
WHAT's Web Applications 1.0 gives examples of such:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dfn
GΓ©rard
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