Re: An Inconvenient hCard

In message <008801c76c3b$3f0941b0$bc08a8c0nzto22>, Paul Wilkins 
<paul_wilkinsxtra.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.

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

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