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Ranko
Junior Member
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 Posted - 26 November 2004 : 10:03:17
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As Firefox got out, and the popularity of the browser is growing I have seen this quite a few times, and thought to mention it.
Snitz is using the acronym tag incorrectly in both the footer, the header and the active topics pages. That results in some of the links displayed with the dotted underline - which is just Firefox's display for the acronym tag.
If these could be reworked with the proper alts in a tags, it would follow the W3C standards, and create a better web (ok, idealism aside, it would be better, 'cause standard compliance = good). |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 11:39:21
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I'm not held up on the whole compliance thing. Although I always try to ensure my projects work on the Big 4, I don't fret over some of this little stuff.
With that said, I've never like the acronym tag anyway  |
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MarkJH
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1722 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 11:45:03
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I've been doing a lot of testing with Firefox recently (as I rebuild my forum with CSS) and noticed the same.
Is there any kind of workaround? |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 13:45:21
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The Acronym tag is used incorreclty indeed.
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/acrobot/why-you-should-use-acronyms-and-abbreviations.asp
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An acronym is a special kind of abbreviation. Either by luck or design, the initial letters make up an abbreviation that can be read aloud as a word in its own right:
NASA pronounced "Nassa"
GUI pronounced "Gooey"
So, it's incorrect to use the acronym tags instead of href title-value even though it works the same in IE.
I've removed them also, but considering the initial purpose of the acronym tag I guess it should be considered an improvement in the basecode to replace these acronym tags by normal href titles. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 13:46:16
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Ohhh. I didn't even notice that if you didn't tell me. lol
I think we can keep this in mind for the next update. |
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Ranko
Junior Member
400 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 14:42:25
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The only workaround is manually removing them (not a problem, and I think I allready listed every acronym in Snitz).
FAQ should have it, obviously. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2004 : 15:50:40
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| I'm pretty sure the Acronym tags are there so that the Tooltips work with older versions of Netscape. It's something like that. But I know they are there for a reason. |
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
USA
3373 Posts |
Posted - 30 November 2004 : 02:51:51
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whats the basis for compatibility? ... like whats the lowest version you're "trying" to be compatible with?
Just curious
I dont see a point in going any lower than 4.0 browsers (IE & Netscape)... obviously some third party browsers havnt made it that far in version numbers though but stay compatible to them also. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 30 November 2004 : 03:18:50
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| could someone tell me what problem this is causing them ?I am currently browsing the forum with firfox and don't see any difference to IE |
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
USA
3373 Posts |
Posted - 30 November 2004 : 03:34:03
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I'm not saying its causing a problem, because its not (I'm viewing via FireFox also).
I was just curious as to the older browsers that exist, what the future programming basis is for those....
Are future versions going to be XHTML/CSS compliant...? I'm not asking specific to the acronym tag. |
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