Re: Use of ACRONYM
by Liz Bartlett <khyri(at)idyllmtn.com>
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At 10:57 PM 3/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hallo John and Gerhard,
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>I only use <acronym title="???">CITE</acronym> when the abbreviation itself is an existing word as CITE..
>IMO CSS is not an existing word, so I will use <abbr title="Cascading StyleSheets">CSS</abbr>
Acronyms are formed by using the initial letters of the
words in a phrase e.g.
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Abbreviations are shortened forms of single words e.g.
etc - Etcetera
bio - Biography
This is the criteria I use when deciding whether to use ABBR or
ACRONYM, but I doubt it matters as far as browser behaviour
when the tags are encountered.
--Liz
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