[uf-discuss] An Inconvenient hCard

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <008801c76c3b$3f0941b0$bc08a8c0 at nzto22>, Paul Wilkins 
<paul_wilkins at xtra.co.nz> writes

>>>   <abbr class="type" title="fax">Téléc</abbr>.:
>>>   <span class="value">(514) 123-4568</span>

>> This thread is going in circles, On 12 March, I wrote, having suggested
>> the same possibility, that:
>>
>>        ...there are concerns that that's an abuse of "abbr".
>
>I think that abuse is too strong a term for what's happening here.
>
>There is historical evidence that in the case of microformats, such a 
>thing is allowed.

1) Please cite "historical evidence" of *different-language* abbr 
content and titles being used.

2) That an HTML element is being used in a particular way "in the case 
of microformats" does not mean that it is not an abuse of what was 
originally intended by the relevant HTML standard.

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Andy Mabbett
                  <http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/uFsig/>

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