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From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Mouseover definitions for acronyms (was Re: RFC: initialisms and
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Ok this is working now.  Thanks to Simon for explaining how to do the
mouseovers in HTML4.  I think that the little dotted underlines will
get distracting in a chapter filled with acronyms.

For the advanced networking chapter anyway, it might look best if the
first occurence of an acronym is rendered with a link to the glossary,
and the first three are rendered with the mouseover.

I'm not really sure, it's largely up to individual sense of
aesthetic.  What do others think?

You can view network-nis.html on your local system (or on the web site
in 6 hours or so) to see what it looks like.

	    - Murray

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:30:28AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> Of course there is also the HTML acronym tag (which might be named
> something different but the idea is the same as the DocBook one) that
> can be used.  In most browsers that renders to a dotted underlined
> item which can be used to indicate an acronym and then the title
> attribute can be used to actually get a mouseover explanation.