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Even better, just use the abbr tag. It's well supported and doesn't rely on an outside source to tell your readers what you're talking about.
by thesuitonym 6y ago
Even better, just use the abbr tag. It's well supported and doesn't rely on an outside source to tell your readers what you're talking about.
- JeremyBanks 6y agoMerely expanding an abbreviation is less useful than explaining it.
- dllthomas 6y agoBetter in some ways, worse in others. Better than either, I think, is both.
- taywrobel 6y ago“It’s well supported”, yet on latest mobile Safari, it doesn’t appear to work at all. This w3 demo code does not show me the full name anywhere in the rendered content -https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_abbr_test https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_ab...
- ficklepickle 6y agoWhat about a long-press on the abbreviation? Does that do anything? I'm not on mobile now but I vaguely recall that working on some mobile platforms.
- lucasverra 6y agoNoup, just tried
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- snazz 6y agoAlthough it works on desktop Safari, there's no way to tell that you should be able to hover over it.
- hashtekar 6y agoChrome on Android rather (un)helpfully selects 'The WHO' and gives me a link to the rock band.
- justusthane 6y agoThat would have nothing to do with the HTML abbr tag. That’s just Google Assistant being Google Assistant.
- hashtekar 6y agoUnderstood. It's a bit like the Google Assistant saying, 'Stand aside, I don't need the instructions. I'm being helpful.' And then doing the wrong thing. It should just RTFM.
- heavyset_go 6y agoDoes <abbr> work well on Android and iOS?
- californical 6y agoNot working for me on iOS
- agent86 6y agoRelevant to the parent here, I prefer to use a link because it is more commonly expected and it gives me the opportunity to refer to a quality source for an in-depth explanation of what I'm referencing. It is especially useful when writing a technical document that utilizes multiple products/stacks/terms. Creating links to quality sources for those items gives someone new to the content a good source to go deeper into those pieces while allowing me to focus the article on the specific aspect I'm writing about.
- rhizome 6y agoThis is how you do that: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (<a href="...">CRDT</a>) ...then you use "CRDT" for the rest of the document.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoIt doesn’t work on mobile
- mcculley 6y agoDo both!
- dguest 6y agoWow, that's awesome! Thanks for the tip! A lot of people seem to be questioning why you'd need this when you could just provide a full link. Personally I read a lot of technical documentation and having acronyms written out in full would almost always be enough. Otherwise the whole document is likely over my head, or it's just a bad acronym.