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Bug 14000 - I think that 4.5.10 example should have a title attribut on the <abbr> tag to give the expanded form of the abbreviation, otherwise the <abbr> tag should be left off. how about... <dd><i class="part-of-speech"><abbr title="intransitive verb">v.intr.</abbr
Summary: I think that 4.5.10 example should have a title attribut on the <abbr> tag to...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-01 19:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-19 22:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-01 19:23:19 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
I think that 4.5.10 example should have a title attribut on the <abbr> tag to
give the expanded form of the abbreviation, otherwise the <abbr> tag should be
left off.

how about...

<dd><i class="part-of-speech"><abbr title="intransitive
verb">v.intr.</abbr></i> To be delighted oneself.</dd>
 <dd><i class="part-of-speech"><abbr title="transitive verb">v.tr.</abbr></i>
To cause one to be delighted.</dd>


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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 22:16:43 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The definition of <abbr> explains the cases where you might want to use <abbr> without a title="".