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Re: Analyzing <abbr> solutions

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 23, 2006 5:00PM

Kynn Bartlett wrote:

> I'd suggest that a better rule than "expand all abbreviated forms with
> <abbr>" is "provide expanded versions on first appearance of unfamiliar
> abbreviated forms with <abbr title>, AND mark subsequent appearances of
> the abbreviated forms with <abbr> (with no title)."

Not sure if it's already been thrown into the mix (I only skimmed the
myriad of replies on this thread), but what about not being able to
define "first appearance" (if a user followed a link to a named anchor
or fragment identifier, landing somewhere after the first occurrence in
the source code, or if a user skipped entire paragraphs etc)

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