Bill Lee wrote: > Well, I use 3 pane and the abbreviation is just as useless to me. I > just tend to look at all those abbreviations with a blank stare and > wonder what in the hell the real names are. Nobody (that I know of) > does this but Moz/N6 and their is a reason why.
The "reason" is that only part of the spec got implemented, and then the developer got called on to more important things. 1) there were supposed to be tooltips that gave the full form 2) it was supposed to abbreviate only as necessary starting from the left. The style of abbreviation is based on historical usage on Usenet. -Dan Veditz
