Mar. 15th, 2002 06:37 pm
More HTML 4 coolness
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andysocialA followup to an earlier entry.
After more experimentation, I have determined that all three major browsers (MSIE, Opera and Navigator) handle the <acronym> tag in a reasonable way. It's amazing, but true - standards compliance is a good thing.
The only reason I'd not seen it before is because the only place I use the Acronym tag is at work, and we use ancient browsers there. But, NN6 shows the tags as a dotted underline, making it obvious what acronyms have meanings linked to them. The other two browsers handle the Acronym tag like they do the ID tag. In IE, it shows up as a tooltip, in Opera, it shows up in the status bar. But, without the underlining, how would a reader know which acronyms are linked? HTML 4.0 recommends commenting the first instance of each acronym, so you'd have to pay attention while reading. I kind of like Netscape's approach best, except the underlines show up when you print.
I know, I'm a geek.
After more experimentation, I have determined that all three major browsers (MSIE, Opera and Navigator) handle the <acronym> tag in a reasonable way. It's amazing, but true - standards compliance is a good thing.
The only reason I'd not seen it before is because the only place I use the Acronym tag is at work, and we use ancient browsers there. But, NN6 shows the tags as a dotted underline, making it obvious what acronyms have meanings linked to them. The other two browsers handle the Acronym tag like they do the ID tag. In IE, it shows up as a tooltip, in Opera, it shows up in the status bar. But, without the underlining, how would a reader know which acronyms are linked? HTML 4.0 recommends commenting the first instance of each acronym, so you'd have to pay attention while reading. I kind of like Netscape's approach best, except the underlines show up when you print.
I know, I'm a geek.