[WSG] 5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document
Unsure about best practice approach for acronym within a link, which may not be ether of these examples... a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; title=Real Simple Syndication News FeedRSS News Feed/a a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; acronym title=Real Simple SyndicationRSS/acronym News Feed/a Many thanks Matt *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] 5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document
a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; acronym title=Real Simple SyndicationRSS/acronym News Feed/a I'd go for something similar to your option 2: a href=http://.co.nz/rss/; abbr title=Rich Site SummaryRSS/abbr News Feed /a The advantage of using the abbr element instead of just the a is that users can hover over the RSS and receive additional information. Why an abbr instead of an acronym? It comes down to personal opinion but RSS is actually an initialism not an acroynm. Initialisms An abbreviation pronounced as the names of the individual letters formed only from the initial letter of constituent words. Acronyms An acronym is defined as a WORD formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name. Initialisms - like CSS or RSS - should be marked up as abbreviations - abbr. HTH Russ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
