14000 2011-09-01 19:23:19 +0000 I think that 4.5.10 example should have a title attribut on the <abbr> tag to give the expanded form of the abbreviation, otherwise the <abbr> tag should be left off. how about... <dd><abbr title="intransitive verb">v.intr.</abbr 2011-10-19 22:16:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 56197 0 contributor 2011-09-01 19:23:19 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: I think that 4.5.10 example should have a title attribut on the <abbr> tag to give the expanded form of the abbreviation, otherwise the <abbr> tag should be left off. how about... <dd><abbr title="intransitive verb">v.intr.</abbr> To be delighted oneself.</dd> <dd><abbr title="transitive verb">v.tr.</abbr> To cause one to be delighted.</dd> Posted from: 70.26.12.108 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) 58445 1 ian 2011-10-19 22:16:43 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The definition of <abbr> explains the cases where you might want to use <abbr> without a title="".