HTML authoring - Acronym Titles

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Acronym Titles

Bier de Stone

2005-07-10, 7:38 pm

The reason I`m back again is to pose this question to your expertise in
the off chance somebody will have a solution (not an alternative). I
know how badly I need to sit myself down and make the switch to XML (or
even css), but I won`t do that until I understand html better. Here is
my question:

Out of curiosity, I`ve managed to create an acronym title for my 28-year
calendar cycle <http://r.aguirre.home.att.net> which drops down the
calendar for the month. It wasn`t easy and still needs some minor
adjustments. The problem i am having is the spacing and the fixed width.
What would make an alternative method of maintaining a double space to
seperate characters. html has the habbit of converting double spaces
into single spaces. I`ve tried using key combinations for em-spacing, as
well as en-spacing, but that just incurs a weird character into my
monthly calendar. If you followed the hyperlink to my index page, find
the link for the current month "July 2005" where there is an acronym
title attached to it and see for yourself the awkward manner the first
and second week display.

Another question is whether there is some way to specify that the
acronym title display in teletype, or any other print that has fixed
width characteristics. I think that this question is irrelevant because
it actually does display fixed width and it`s just that double spacing
glitch that is throwing me off.

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Adrienne

2005-07-10, 7:38 pm

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Bier de Stone
<artworldNiKSPAM@att.net> writing in news:42D140AB.6030801@att.net:

> The reason I`m back again is to pose this question to your expertise in
> the off chance somebody will have a solution (not an alternative). I
> know how badly I need to sit myself down and make the switch to XML (or
> even css), but I won`t do that until I understand html better. Here is
> my question:
>
> Out of curiosity, I`ve managed to create an acronym title for my 28-year
> calendar cycle <http://r.aguirre.home.att.net> which drops down the
> calendar for the month. It wasn`t easy and still needs some minor
> adjustments. The problem i am having is the spacing and the fixed width.
> What would make an alternative method of maintaining a double space to
> seperate characters. html has the habbit of converting double spaces
> into single spaces. I`ve tried using key combinations for em-spacing, as
> well as en-spacing, but that just incurs a weird character into my
> monthly calendar. If you followed the hyperlink to my index page, find
> the link for the current month "July 2005" where there is an acronym
> title attached to it and see for yourself the awkward manner the first
> and second week display.
>
> Another question is whether there is some way to specify that the
> acronym title display in teletype, or any other print that has fixed
> width characteristics. I think that this question is irrelevant because
> it actually does display fixed width and it`s just that double spacing
> glitch that is throwing me off.
>

Your method is ill advised. Some browsers, IE for example, provide no
visual clue of an acronym so the user it will not be available to the user
unless they happen to mouse over it.

The title attribute is for a short title, and the font used is the user's,
you cannot control, or even suggest, anything different.

The color choices do not have enough contrast, and the small font size
makes it even harder to see. "Ourobouros Calendar" blue on black is almost
impossible to see without highlighting it.

You really need to validate this document, there are 364 errors, a lot of
them having to do with some element called X-SAS-WINDOW, which is not
recognized (what is it, anyway?).

Further, there is no explanation as to this pages purpose. That will help
the user who comes along to be able to use the calendar.

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Adrienne Boswell
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