   From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb
2000 12:27:44 -0800 Message-Id: <> To: Ann Navarro
<ann@webgeek.com> At 12:26 PM 2/20/2000 , Ann Navarro wrote:
>Hmmm.   Would it be detrimental to encourage treatment of
either as acronym >since some user agents apparently support
acronyms where abbr is less  I'd say that if we can't figure out
why someone would want to use one or the other -- if they're
effectively equivalent, do the same things, and can be used for
the same types of content -- then one of them is redundant and
should be tossed.  Are they both redundant?  What does ABBR or
ACRONYM do that SPAN with TITLE doesn't?  Would it be better to
have a more generalized way of indicating alternate/expanded
content for text, such as SPAN/TITLE, rather than the confusing
specialized forms of ABBR/TITLE  I say confusing because
obviously there's some disagreement -- even because they don't
present a generic way to provide alternatives for textual
content, but rather only in certain cases.