[html4all] phonetic of some word or name

[Charles McCathieNevile]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:48:10 -0300, Andy Mabbett  
<usenet200309 at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> In message <op.t02ziw0bwxe0ny at widsith.local>, Charles McCathieNevile
> <chaals at opera.com> writes
>
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:04:12 -0400, Andy Mabbett
>>
> <usenet200309 at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message
>> <4722F876.7010308 at free.fr>,
>> aurelien.levyatfree.fr@?.?.invalid
>> writes
>>
>>> did you think as me that it can be useful to have a new
>> html element to
>>> markup phonetic pronunciation of a word or name.
>>
>>
>> [Hello folks: my first post here]
>>
>> I thank that might (at least in
>> the interim) be a good case for a
>> microformat.
>
> I think that is a bad
>> idea. There is already markup in HTML that does
> this
>
> Which is..?

Ruby. See earlier in the thread for more detail. (Nothing stops you from  
making another µformat, of course. But I think it would just be  
fragmenting the problem so you are less likely to get an interoperable  
solution).

cheers

Chaals

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