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Re: FW: HTML - <abbr> and <acronym> settings

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Mar 24, 2006 11:50AM

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> Assistive technology could, however, do something similar to the DOCTYPE
> switching in browsers.

What a frightening idea.

> If a DOCTYPE is present, give preference to
> using HTML's features that can unequivocally define meaning and context,
> rather than guesstimating.

By definition, a DOCTYPE declaration specifies the formal syntax rules
that a document purports to comply with. Nothing more, nothing less. Any
conclusions concerning semantics add just wild guesses to the current
guesswork and are bound to give wrong results _very_ often.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/