Hello all,
As as been pointed out (including in the subject line of the very
message to which I'm responding), this is all off-topic for
css-discuss. If anyone is interested in spawning a related thread on
the best ways to style 'u' elements, or 'span' elements to simulate
(or improve upo
>> Abbreviation: Mr.
>> Acronym: SCUBA
>> Initialism: FBI
>
> I don't see the distinction between acronym (which I understand), and
> initialism (which sounds like a made up word). Both are acronyms. Acronyms,
> depending upon the "coined" usage, is either pronounced as a word or as
> individual
>> initialism |iˈni sh əˌlizəm|
>> noun
>> an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced
>> separately (e.g.,CPU).
>> • an acronym.
>
> Okay, I accept that. The earlier post suggested that an initialism was a
> *different* entity from an acronym. Rather, an
> initialism is an acronym,
> initialism |iˈni sh əˌlizəm|
> noun
> an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced
> separately (e.g.,CPU).
> • an acronym.
Okay, I accept that. The earlier post suggested that an initialism was a
*different* entity from an acronym. Rather, an initialism is an acronym, but an
acro
initialism |iˈni sh əˌlizəm|
noun
an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g.,CPU).
• an acronym.
On 2010-01-15, at 1:01 AM, david wrote:
> Ray Costanzo wrote:
> OK, that's clear. But HTML has never offered an tag, so
> is still needed. ;-)
>
>> Actually, an acro
A reply that went to me, but probably should have gone to the entire list, or
at least the OP...
> [my lengthy reply on semantic markup]
Another reason is that usability-wise, only something that is a link is
supposed to be underlined on the web. For a bibliographic reference, perhaps
bo
Lisa Frost wrote:
> The page in question is here:
> http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/xhtml/supporters.html
> I don't want to be emailing you all for every little thing that
> stumps me.
Why not? That's what CSS-D is for. :-)
Floats are not well suited for that kind of line-up. Resize tex
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Lisa Frost wrote:
> The page in question is here:
> http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/xhtml/supporters.html
>
> css here: http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/css/mainstyles.css
>
> The part i can't get my head round is my css for my supporters content which
> i
Lisa Frost wrote:
> 4. My biggest problem i am having with css, is that i know exactly how i
> want something to look, like in this case i just want a series of boxes
> lined up next and under each other and centered but then i have no idea how
> to do it and even less of an idea as to what to goo
On 2010/01/15 08:37 (GMT-0500) Rob Emenecker composed:
>> Abbreviation: Mr.
>> Acronym: SCUBA
>> Initialism: FBI
> I don't see the distinction between acronym (which I understand), and
> initialism (which sounds like a made up word). Both are acronyms. Acronyms,
> depending upon the "coined" u
> Abbreviation: Mr.
> Acronym: SCUBA
> Initialism: FBI
I don't see the distinction between acronym (which I understand), and
initialism (which sounds like a made up word). Both are acronyms. Acronyms,
depending upon the "coined" usage, is either pronounced as a word or as
individual letters. Th
Forgive my ignorance but i am still completely new to css and yet to
complete a whole site using it.
I have 4 questions in my search for understanding.
The page in question is here:
http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/xhtml/supporters.html
css here: http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/css/main
Ray Costanzo wrote:
OK, that's clear. But HTML has never offered an tag, so
is still needed. ;-)
> Actually, an acronym is pronounced as a word, and an initialism is
> not, as is my understanding.
>
> Abbreviation: Mr.
> Acronym: SCUBA
> Initialism: FBI
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:10
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