> Matthew Pennell > It's not an abbreviated form of the full date by any stretch of the > imagination.
Tell that to the microformats crowd - they've practically stretched the idea of "abbreviation" to anything, just so they can fit their machine readable data into the page... > Why not just use a span (or whatever other tag is convenient): [...] > Functionally it's exactly the same as using ABBR. Except that screen readers won't expand spans or read out their title in any way. Though one could argue that screen readers should have their own heuristics to spot (the more unambiguous) roman numerals and read them out accordingly. I think maybe the more fundamental question for Tate: why are you using roman numerals if you know they're going to confuse people? Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor Enterprise & Development University of Salford Room 113, Faraday House Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK T +44 (0) 161 295 4779 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
