title attribute and abbreviated classnames(Was:[uf-discuss]Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results)

[Scott Reynen]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:

>> >> I'd propose this as an alternative:
>> >> <abbr class="currency" title="USD">$</abbr>5.99
>
> What happened to:
>
> <span class="money"><abbr class="currency" title="USD">$</abbr><span
> class="amount">5.99</span></span>

I continue to prefer that, but I think Mike is pushing for less  
verbose markup, and I'm trying to explore how less verbose markup  
could communicate the same information with minimal assumptions.  The  
assumptions here are:

1) any numbers, decimals, and commas adjacent to a tag with  
class="currency" have an implied surrounding tag with class="amount"
2) any adjacent currency and amount have an implied surrounding tag  
with class="money"

Following those two assumptions, we end up at the markup you  
supplied, without actually typing all that.

> Does that solve the whole problem and give us an extra usefulness at
> the same time

I think the relevant questions here are: 1) what exactly is that  
extra usefulness? and 2) is it worth the cost of more verbose markup?

I have a vague suspicion the answer to the latter is "yes," but I  
haven't yet been able to clarify the answer to the former myself just  
yet, and Mike makes persuasive arguments for minimizing the markup.   
I'd be interested in others' thoughts on this.

Peace,
Scott