On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Alf Eaton wrote: > I think the conclusion was to go with whatever the microformats > community decided. If abbr goes out of fashion there (which > seems unlikely) then unAPI (if it was ever to be updated) would > probably follow suit.
Hi Alf - Thanks for that. It does make sense, but it is rather unfortunate. I will dig a little deeper into what the up-to-date situation is with the generic microformats community. Note that nobody is objecting to using ABBR for a microformat, when the usage is consistent with ABBR semantics and accessibility requirements. So not all microformat usage of ABBR is deprecated. But, in the specific case of unAPI, the usage is, in fact,, contrary to ABBR semantics, and can, furthermore, be expected to directly cause real world problems for accessibility. In the meantime, unfortunately, I won't be able to make any usage of unAPI myself, or, indeed, recommend it to anyone else; and I can't really believe I will be unique in that ... Best wishes, - Barry. -- Barry McMullin, Dublin City University phone: +353-1-700-5432 web: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gcs-pcs-list" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gcs-pcs-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
