From beardedbaby@gmail.com on August 21, 2009 20:02:10

Last time I saw this come up in the forum, the main argument for using the acronym element was IE6
compatibility. I think we're beyond that now-- let's use valid semantic HTML that works for all abbreviations, of
which acronyms are only a subset:

An acronym can be spoken as if it were a word, example NATO, NASA, ASAP, GUI. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_acronym.asp

From r.wetzlmayr on February 03, 2010 12:15:10

Labels: Component-Textile

From r.wetzlmayr on June 01, 2010 04:54:23

As this would break compatibility with CSS rules on existing sites we will postpone
this issue to the next major release.

Status: Confirmed
Labels: Milestone-5.0 Priority-Low

From emil...@web.de on June 26, 2011 03:38:04

If you search at a change from acronym to abbr, see the article: http://www.karinmuellerschmied.de/textpattern-info/das-abbr-eine-classtextilephp-erweiterung Is at moment in german, but I write a english-version very soon!

My further Extensions:

Ive add a lower case for ABC -> AbC, its functionally, but for German (and maybe in other languages the same?) Ive a problem:
We write e.g. Mitglieder(innen) and this would be result in Mitglieder. But that is wrong, it should not go to an and outputting Mitglieder(innen).

Its not very use it often wiht more words in (). So maybe you can look that if there a space, then make it to an ?

Why I make this Extension? In Germany we have Abbreviations e.g. "iDeas" or "ABeR"

From r.wetzlmayr on February 10, 2012 21:54:08

Fixed with change set r3627 .

Status: Fixed
Owner: r.wetzlmayr
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