Friday, March 25, 2005

Firefox and the acronym tag

I just stumbled on something cool with Firefox. Try using the acronym tag, thus:

<acronym title="Spell Out The Acronym Here">SOTAH</acronym>

And the associated stylesheet:

acronym {
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #222;
  cursor: help;
}

The result is YATLA. I especially like the mouse pointer change (at least on Windows).

Thanks to this page on ISBN bookmarklets.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/26/2005 1:37 PM

    I'm not sure if you tried it in IE or not, but just for giggles I brought it up and it works.

    As for Linux, I tested it on Slack running KDE and it works as well.

    Thanks ... I'm adding this to my arsenal!

    -Joe O'Brien
    objo dot com

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  2. Brian Oxley3/26/2005 3:51 PM

    That's good to hear. I'm presently updating my Gentoo KDE box (too many USE flag changes at one time :-)), so haven't tried that yet. Nice that IE actually worked.

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