On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Christian Neumair wrote: > > I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too > > long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media > > Video video", for example, are particularly long and redundant, and > > would look stupid should a programmer ever actually employ the long > > comment form. > > Maybe you could come up with alternate proposals? > > > Since a lot of what you are doing seems to be acronym expansion, I think > > a better approach might be to use what many web pages employ nowadays, > > namely an <abbr> tag. > > Isn't that exactly what I was proposing, just that the <abbr> tag you > propose maps to the <comment> tag of my proposal, i.e. > > | short desc., long desc. (expanded) > current <comment>, <comment> > your proposal <abbr>, <comment> > my proposal <comment>, <long-comment>
What about going the exact HTML way: <_comment><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> stylesheet</_comment> Assuming that the long-comment is typically useless, this way you have the short comment "CSS stylesheet" that most people want, and you can have a tooltip for the under-dotted-lined "CSS", like the browsers do these day. --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
