Re: replacing acronym and tt HTML elements

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 06:33:33PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 03:29:45PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I propose to replace the elements removed from HTML5, acronym and tt.
> > acronym HTML element replaced by abbr, and tt by a span, where there is
> > no semantics for the tt, for example with @t.  This would lead to
> > 
> > <abbr class="acronym">
> > <span class="t">
> > 
> > span.t => font-family: monospace;
> > 
> > Does it looks ok?
> 
> @t should already output <code>; I thought I changed this a few months ago.
> 
> If there is anywhere left in texi2any which outputs <tt> (not from @t),
> then we could consider it case by case.
> 
> I'm happy to replace <acronym> with <abbr> although I don't think
> there is an urgent need to do so.

The epub readers can be more picky than browsers.  Also it seems to me
that browser formats these two in the same way.  It allows more
conformance with HTML5, in a backward compatible way with HTML4 (but not
HTML3.2).  It is not urgent, but seems relevant to me to do.

-- 
Pat