[thelist] Use of <abbr title>

[J Isaac Swiderski]

> >Speech-readers will probably read the title attribute, so would you code
> >
> ><acronym title="Portable Network Graphic">PNG</acronym>
> >
> >or
> >
> ><acronym title="ping">PNG</acronym> ?
> --
>
> The <acronym title="Graphics Interchange Format">GIF</acronym> format
> allows only 256 colours, while <acronym title="Joint Photographic Experts
> Group">JPEG files</acronym> can have up to 16.7 million.

My understanding was that the title would replace, not supplant, the
acronym, so they'd hear something more like,

"The Graphics Interchange Format format allows  . . . . "

which is why the original should be "The GIF allows only. . ." in the
first place :)

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