abbr-design-pattern: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
DavidJanes (talk | contribs) |
DavidJanes (talk | contribs) (Added link to mailing list discussion on abbr) |
||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
* [[Main_Page#Design_Patterns|All microformat design patterns]] | * [[Main_Page#Design_Patterns|All microformat design patterns]] | ||
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001277.html discussion in microformats-discuss] | |||
* [[datetime-design-pattern]] uses [[abbr-design-pattern]] | * [[datetime-design-pattern]] uses [[abbr-design-pattern]] | ||
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR HTML 4.01 definition] | * [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR HTML 4.01 definition] | ||
Revision as of 10:23, 11 October 2005
Abbr design pattern
Purpose
Use the abbr-design-pattern to make text that is human readable also formally machine readable.
How to use it
Description
Discussion
- Theoretically, this could be done with almost any HTML element. But is it a good idea? If it's not, is abbr the only one? DavidJanes
- abbr-design-pattern should be avoided, if possible. RobertBachmann
- why, or under what circumstances? For example, it is quite useful with datetimes. Should there not be other potentially analogous situations? DavidJanes