On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:39 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alf Eaton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> How would you see that sitting inside HTML mark-up? > ><abbr class="uri" title="urn:isbn:0950788120">0 9507881-2-0</abbr> > I'm very concerned that that may be an abuse of "abbr"; and wonder how > it will sound when read to someone using assistive software?
It would be nice to have a more specific html element to work with. What we use abbr for most of the time in microformats is not to provide an expansion of an abbreviation, but to provide a canonicalisation. Those are often the same thing, but it still seems a little odd. I think it becomes odder as you cross language and culture boundaries. In these cases canoncalisation to a machine-readable format may be increasingling important, but the mapping to "abbr" increasingly skewed. Hixie: Help! :) Benjamin. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
