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# Huh?
Wha'? *Is Kerpuzzled*
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:12, archived)
# I understand all of it
except for the basset hound, the marble pillar, the marmalade and the machinery.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:14, archived)
# The marmalade is hot buttered toast
semi-transparent over two semi transparent layers of crisp glazed Pain au chocolat pastries and a base layer of chocolate filling.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:19, archived)
# Two questions:
1) was that a lie?
2) how do I use a search engine to find pages containing a particular tag? I want to know whether anybody on the internet outside of the WC3 themselves has ever actually bothered to use the <acronym> tag.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:29, archived)
# 1) Not a deliberate one, but yes
I checked and the base layer is of pain au chocolat pastry, then that is covered by a layer of semi transparent chocolate, a second layer of pastry and then the buttered toast.

2) I use acronym loads. Google says others do too, although I personally tend to ise <acronym title="whatever">whatever</acronym>
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:32, archived)
# Do you, what good does it do?
Ah, do search engines reward sites that label things, because they are more search-engine-friendly? That would make sense.
Edit: I tried codesearch, but it doesn't appear to search html pages.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:35, archived)
# Hmm,
You should only use it with the title attribute, a la W3, but it is very useful - FF adds styling to it by default and you can style it yourself - convention says to use a dashed bottom border.

It is required for even level 1 WAI compliance
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:40, archived)
# Oh, OK
so it gives some mouseover text explaining the acronym. Alright, I like it now.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 0:44, archived)
# Good man,
I am a bit of an accessibility geek - anyone know of any good accessibility / DDA / usability / user behaviour courses with an appropriate qualification?

Gaz me.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 1:08, archived)
# [it's just a convention...
..don't get so bloody cocky ;?)
/joke]
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 1:09, archived)