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Re: Analyzing <abbr> solutions

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 24, 2006 2:10PM

On 3/24/06, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Yup, the user agents should really start to become a lot smarter in this
> respect. An additional method that would be quite smart: adding a
> vocabulary file in RDF format or similar to the page via a LINK, and
> have the UA refer to it for expanded versions of abbreviations etc.


I think even a link to a page with definitions in <dl> would work. We don't
need an RDF format, necessarily, although it would be good for automatic
definition ability.

This can be done NOW:

<link rel="glossary" href="termsdefined.html" title="Terms Defined">

I think it's supported in, what, Lynx?

--Kynn