That Norwegian Guy » acronym http://thatnorwegianguy.com Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:36:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 To <abbr> or <acronym>? http://thatnorwegianguy.com/2007/to-abbr-or-acronym/ http://thatnorwegianguy.com/2007/to-abbr-or-acronym/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:29:03 +0000 Eystein http://thatnorwegianguy.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/to-abbr-or-acronym/ I believe the easiest way to differentiate them is to use <acronym> if you can speak it like a word, not spell them out like a group of letters. We say “ray-dar”, not are-aay-dee-ayy-are. So we get <acronym title="Radio Detection and Ranging">Radar</acronym>.

If spelling them out letter by letter it’s an <abbr>, like this <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>.

Thank’s to this comment on a old thread at evolt.org for cutting it clear.

Offcourse, Microsoft has decided not to support the abbr element in its browsers …

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