summary of (RE: Abbreviations and Acronyms: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft)
"Jewett, Jim J" <[email protected]>
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As I understand the recent posts: (1) <abbr> and <acronym> are currently misused, and cannot fully meet the WAI requirements on their own. (2) Ruby can already do this in a technically correct way (or does it violate one of the Ruby assumptions?) (3) Any three-part distinction (perhaps using Ruby, perhaps using read or class attributes) would be closer, but probably won't be used in practice. It would take too much space for hand-coders and too much thought for tools. (4) If this is more than presentational, then there may be more than three possibilities -- perhaps we really need leave a link option. Suggestion: We already have a glossary link type. Use <term>word</term> to indicate that more information is available in that glossary. Would it also be reasonable to define a glossary module? (Which might overlap with definition lists...) <entry read="init">Term <def1 class=?>asflkj</def1> <def2 class=?>asdlkj</def2> </entry>