[uf-discuss] That pesky abbrevation tag (yet again)

[Jim O'Donnell]

On 6 Jan 2008, at 03:39, Paul Wilkins wrote:

>> Is it feasible to change the hCard parsing rules so that the content
>> of title is used, if present, for class="type", no matter which
>> element the class is present on?
>
> It was decided to not go that way. Authors commonly have other title
> attributes in microformat sections that are not supposed to be
> interpreted as machine data. Authors would have to retrofit their
> existing code and remove existing titles from all affected microformat
> sections.
>
So what's the way forward? Shrug our shoulders and accept <abbr> for  
types as a kind of 'spacer-gif' for microformats? Surely there's a  
way to solve this without encouraging authors to misuse HTML.

Jim

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