On Do, 2005-10-13 at 06:23 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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.
I see no reason to apply HTML semantics here. This will even break backward-compatibility if one simply upgrades shared-mime-info, and uses software which interprets <comment>. Also, I'm not confident that translators will grasp what that tag is all about. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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