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Definitive essay on abbreviations; online news initiatives
Lars Holst has written what may be the definitive essay on the use of abbr and acronym. The well-researched piece concludes:
- Understand the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms.
- Use the <acronym> element for acronyms only.
- Use the <abbr> element for initialisms, or when in doubt.
From SimpleBits: a comprehensive tutorial/post-mortem on the accessible image-tab rollovers created for Fast Company.
The latest Gorilla Tip is about a topic I receive a lot of feedback on: links opening in new windows. Mr. Robinson’s arguments are convincing, and managed to motivate me to make a long-intended change: offsite links on saila.com now open in the current browser window (as opposed to a pop-up).
Meanwhile, in Sacramento: Tony Marcano is being bullied by the blogosphere over the decision to edit a blog. This past Sunday, he expanded on the reasoning for his decision, which I still think was right, after all, even columnists — the outpost of free opinion in printed newspapers — are edited.
And on the blogging-plus-news theme: the president of MSNBC.com talks about how blogs help online news. (He also discusses a range of other topics from ratings to the future of his site.)
Finally, I’ve added three new sites to my blogroll:
- Lars’,
- dionidium.com,
- and Anne van Kestere’s Weblog about Markup & Style.
I’ve also added three new sites to my blogroll:
- Lars’,
- dionidium.com,
- and Anne van Kestere’s Weblog about Markup & Style.
(I also removed a few stale sites…).
CBC’s excellent Home Delivery service has wrapped up its trial run which was scheduled to end five months ago. Right now, its unclear if it will become a regular service, but it’d be a shame if it didn’t.
Lars Holst:
It should be pointed out that the post was inspired by and to a large extent based on your Evolt article and Ian Lloyd's Made for All tutorial. I more or less just summarized whatever previous work that was done. I'm not sure how evident this is in my post.
I learned a lot as I wrote it though, which was fun.
Still, I'm left with a slight feeling of incompleteness.
I suppose that even as caring web developers, we must come to terms with the fact that the semantic and accessible web means compromise. For now.
But such is life.
Oct. 1 2003 at 5:32 AM EDT
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Craig Saila:
Oct. 2 2003 at 8:14 AM EDT
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