Thanks (was Marking up musical notes?)

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  • Mark Tranchant
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    Thanks (was Marking up musical notes?)

    Thanks for the input everyone. I've settled (for now) on the following:

    <abbr title="B flat">Bb</abbr>

    My magic conversion to pander to IE's non-support of <abbr> [1] has now
    been turned off as it made any music-related pages a mass of conditional
    comments. People who want abbreviations expanded can either get a
    browser or view the source.

    I understand that e.g. Bb isn't really an abbreviation, but I think it's
    probably the closest semantically. Perhaps <code> would have been
    appropriate?

    Now all I need to do is update the crazy number of occurrences.

    [1] It converted <abbr title="foo">bar </abbr> to:

    <abbr title="foo"><!--[if IE]<acronym title="(fixed abbr for IE)
    foo">bar</acronym><![endif]--></abbr>

    --
    Mark.
    http://tranchant.plus.com/

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    • Nick Kew
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      Re: Thanks (was Marking up musical notes?)

      Mark Tranchant wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > <abbr title="B flat">Bb</abbr>
      >
      > My magic conversion to pander to IE's non-support of <abbr>[/color]

      Seems OTT. Presumably users affected by that are those who don't need
      the title anyway, yesno?
      [color=blue]
      > Now all I need to do is update the crazy number of occurrences.[/color]

      That's what scripts and regexps are for!

      --
      Nick Kew

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        • Mark Tranchant
          #3
          Re: Thanks (was Marking up musical notes?)

          Nick Kew wrote:[color=blue]
          > Mark Tranchant wrote:
          >[color=green]
          >><abbr title="B flat">Bb</abbr>
          >>
          >>My magic conversion to pander to IE's non-support of <abbr>[/color]
          >
          > Seems OTT. Presumably users affected by that are those who don't need
          > the title anyway, yesno?[/color]

          In the musical note case, yes. What I've ended up doing is as follows:

          In the source XML, notes are marked up as <note title="B flat">Bb</note>
          The front-end performs the IE fix on <abbr>s first, then converts the
          <note>s to <abbr>. That way, non-note <abbr>s are still readable by the
          joke "browser", and my music pages aren't drowned in conditional comments.
          [color=blue][color=green]
          >>Now all I need to do is update the crazy number of occurrences.[/color]
          >
          > That's what scripts and regexps are for![/color]

          Yes, but they're hardly trivial given the number of cases.

          --
          Mark.
          http://tranchant.plus.com/

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