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RE: ABBR vs. just spelling it out.

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From: Juan Ulloa
Date: Mar 21, 2006 3:50PM

My recommendation would be to spell it out, specially the first time you
use it. Then, in future uses of the abbreviation, I would start using
the abbr tag.

Using the <abbr> tag is tricky because IE6 completely ignores the tag.
There are some DOM based javascript tricks that you could use to get IE6
to behave as it would support the <abbr> tag. I'm not sure of a best
solution, but here is an example I've used in the past:
http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/julloa/html/abbr.htm.


Jukka Korpela wrote:
> Note that "support" to <abbr> in IE 7 will be one more reason
> _not_ to use <abbr>.

It's my understanding that IE & will support the <abbr> tag.



Juan C. Ulloa
Webmaster, Web Services
Chair, Employee Pluralism Committee
Bellevue Community College
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