In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >>> <abbr class="currency" title="USD"> >>> <span class="amount">42.67</span> >>> </abbr> >>> >>> Isn't this suggesting that "42.67" is an abbreviation for "USD"? >> >> I've commented before that microformats already "misuse" <abbr> in >>this >> way. > >Where is that? I don't remember seeing anything like this, where one >piece of information is declared as abbreviation for another and >they're not even the same kind of information. I may be a similar discussion; sorry. >When the data is on the page, this seems like an ideal use of the >include pattern: > ><http://microformats.org/wiki/include-pattern> > >Specifically, something like this: > ><th><abbr title="USD" id="usd" class="currency">Cost</abbr></th> > >[...] > ><td class="money"> > <a class="include" href="#usd"></a> > <span class="amount">42.67</span> ></td> An empty anchor tag? Is that semantically meaningful? It's certainly something I'd usually avoid using, >When the data is not on the page at all, I'd say that's out of scope >for microformats. I now that's the received wisdom here; I don't agree that it's always the case, but this isn't the thread for that debate. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
