James Graham wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the
reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to
be an abbreviation.
I agree, unless using <abbr> with no title is useful to get the correct
rendering of abbreviations in non-visual media.
Using <abbr> without a title would be useful if it automatically
referred to a previous instance with the title attribute.
e.g.
You could mark up the first occurance as like this
<abbr title="As Far as I Know">AFAIK</abbr>
Then, later in the document, you could use it without the title attribute
<abbr>AFAIK</abbr>
and a UA could allow the user to discover the expansion. This idea is
already somewhat supported in the current draft, but requires that it
references the defining term of a previously marked up <dfn>, rather
than just another occurrence of the same abbreviation. IMHO, that part
of the spec needs fixing.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dfn
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
