Jeremy Keith wrote:
However, I'm against contorting microformats because of bugs or
suboptimal
behaviors in <1% marketshare browsers.
Normally I would agree with you here. But the situation with screen
readers is somewhat different. We're not talking about a regular browser
here: if someone is using a sub-optimal or outdated web browser and they
don't get the full benefits, then that's something that can be brushed
over but for a blind person using the most up-to-date technology
available to have to put up with an illegible piece of data isn't
acceptable. In this particular case, the market share numbers are--to my
mind--irrelevant.
Also, it strikes me as interesting that the epiphany of using ABBR for
storing both human and ISO dates came about mainly because of the fact
that the original OBJECT has such poor support in Safari. Where was the
"I won't let their laziness/stubbornness stand in the way of progress"
attitude back then? Simply marketshare, I guess...
I'd also like to point out one of the beauties of the proposed
title-design-pattern: it's completely backwards compatible with the
abbr-design-pattern.
That was indeed the idea behind generalising it, yes.
I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else feels as strongly as I do
that the title-design-pattern is something that should codified as soon
as possible.
I'd raise my hand, but you guessed that already, didn't you?
P
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