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Bug 14277 - What does treating acronym identically with abbr means? Does it mean that if I will apply CSS style for abbr it should be also applied for acronym?
Summary: What does treating acronym identically with abbr means? Does it mean that if ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-24 14:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-04 00:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-24 14:18:46 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/obsolete.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#other-elements,-attributes-and-apis
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#other-elements,-attributes-and-apis

Comment:
What does treating acronym identically with abbr means? Does it mean that if I
will apply CSS style for abbr it should be also applied for acronym?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-02 17:27:13 UTC
The spec doesn't say anything about treating anything identically. It says "User agents must treat acronym elements in a manner equivalent to abbr elements in terms of semantics and for purposes of rendering". Is that ambiguous? I don't understand how that could be interpreted to mean that CSS selectors for one match the other. Any suggestions on how to make it clearer?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-04 00:04:03 UTC
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 1