On Nov 29, 2007 3:48 PM, Tate Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm in the process of representing the date in Roman Numerals. I'm
> concerned this may confuse potential users, and would like to display
> an optional tooltip in the standard Gregorian YYYY format. Would it be
> considered semantically appropriate to make use of the abbr tag?
>

I'd say no. It's not an abbreviated form of the full date by any stretch of
the imagination.

Why not just use a span (or whatever other tag is convenient):

<span title="The year 2007">MMVII</span>

Functionally it's exactly the same as using ABBR.

- Matthew


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