HTML is not an acronym… - saila.com
January 12 2005
I thought that figuring out the distinction between ACRONYMs and ABBR(eviations) would be simple. Perhaps, but the web usage of these two tags is hardly straightforward, HTML is not an acronym…
The particular problem I have is that common wisdom dictates that the ABBR tag is the preferred one (for semantic reasons!?) even if the element you’re marking up is an acronym. The W3C has recommended this tag over (not even including ACRONYM in its XHTML drafts) indicating that ABBR “includes acronyms.” Which doesn’t make sense to me if I know that the element I’m marking up is actually an acronym which could take the ACRONYM tag. But if ACRONYM falls by the wayside in the future then it’s good practice to use the future-proofed tag ABBR.
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