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RE: State names - use abbreviations or spell out?

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From: Don Hinshaw
Date: Apr 26, 2005 5:30PM

Thanks John,
I see how IE handles <acronym>, but HPR doesn't behave any differently when it reads the contents of the tag.
Do I need to care about whether or not IE displays a visual for <acronym title="foo> vs. <abbr>?
Or is it with some readers that the title attribute is read and therefore it is preferable?

I'm a little confused as to the benefit of using <acronym>.

Thanks,
Don

John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote:

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> Try: <acronym title="Virginia">VA</acronym>
> As for wy acronym instead of abbr, check the archives, this has been around
> about a hundred times before, but the simple answer is that IE does not yet
> support <abbr>
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