Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Just a few issues regarding the use of abbr and dfn elements.
*The abbr Element's title Attribute*
I think the title attribute should also be allowed to be omitted from
the abbr element if there is another abbr element with a title attribute
for the same abbreviation in the document. This would be very useful
for cases where the same abbreviation is used multiple times, but is not
defined (using <dfn>) anywhere in the document.
Why would that instance not use <dfn>?
It's quite common to use abbreviations without defining what they mean
the first time they're used in each document.
So in a document that discusses, for example, something about HTML and
marks up the first instance as <abbr title="Hypertext Markup
Language">HTML</abbr>, but doesn't actually define what HTML is, it
wouldn't be appropriate to use <dfn>. The idea was that subsequent
instances of of the abbreviation would be marked up without the title
attribute, but that would only be useful with the cross-referencing feature.
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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
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