- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:56:59 +0100
- To: Barry Rader <brader@boldinternet.com>
- Cc: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:44:16PM -0500, Barry Rader wrote:
> Using Jukka's Method I could have to scroll up some 500 lines to see the
> first instance.
It gets better. Given that you may not arrive at the content where
the content start, you might not even know it /has/ been expanded
somewhere.
So either the author need to expand the abbreviation/acronym at
every single instance, or he/she uses something like the abbr and
acronym elements.
I wish more would. Personally I use the same method of getting the
expanded form as Barry does, and I'd be rather sad if a long
document had expanded forms absolutely everywhere in the text.
It gets tedious after a while. We do need to keep in mind the
non-linear nature of web "pages" - and also that UAs which have
onboard dictionaries rarely have them for more than English, and
very rarely for everything.
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