Patrick Lauke wrote:
[C]onsidering that HTML itself has such a kludgey, ambiguous and incomplete set
of tags anyway...[e]very acronym could also be marked up as an abbreviation, without losing too much semantic weight...
True, and because...
IE's lack of real support for abbr is a problem in
On 21/07/2004, at 4:10 PM, Bert Doorn wrote:
G'day
Looks distinctly like a case of totally unnecessary to me but we have
a difference of opinion in the office...
Even if it was written as VDS, it would be an abbr(eviation): abbr
title=Vent Door SystemsVDS/abbr
Actually, VDS is an acronym of Vent
: 22 July 2004 14:09
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On 21/07/2004, at 4:10 PM, Bert Doorn wrote:
G'day
Looks distinctly like a case of totally unnecessary to me
but we have
a difference of opinion in the office...
Even if it was written
G'day
Looks distinctly like a case of totally unnecessary to me but we have
a difference of opinion in the office...
Even if it was written as VDS, it would be an abbr(eviation): abbr
title=Vent Door SystemsVDS/abbr
A couple of other points to consider:
1. Is the use of h5 appropriate here
Wonderful...thanks to you all... :o)
Jackie Reid
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Shortened forms on the Web - Abbreviations, Contractions, Acronyms,
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Hi all
Confusion is setting in.is the following piece of code correct or not...
h5a
name="ventdoor"/aacronym title="Vent Door Systems"Vent
DoorSystems/acronym/h5
Looks distinctlylike a case of totally
unnecessary to me butwe have a difference of opinion in the office...so
thought i
Hi Jackie,
To the best of my knowledge, you would only use Acronym if the visible text read
VDS - the user can only see the acronym, so the acronym tag allows them to
mouse-over it and see what it stands for in case they aren't familiar with it.
If you are displaying the full name, then I think
Hi Jackie
If it was this: acronym title=Vent Door Systems>VDS/acronym>, then I'd say it's fine - as it is an acronym and needs to be marked up as one.
But it isn't so there really is no need for the acronym element
Cheers
Jeff Lowder
Accessibility 1st
On 21/07/2004, at 3:36 PM, Jackie Reid
These should help
http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/abbr.html
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/28.php
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/phrase/abbr.html
The first link should be the most helpful for your problem
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