Why is ABBR being used when the title attribute is available on all HTML elements?
In the datetime design pattern the title attribute is used for the value of the property and the node value is used as the display value. Display-Here. A. The short answer is that has the correct semantics. The longer answer is that the value is often an abbreviated version of the formal value. Of course, if you don’t want to use an , you can use another element like this: New Year 2006-12-31T12:59:59Z In addition, microformats encourage the content to be visible and thus prefer the text of an element rather than using the ‘title’ attribute or any other less visible alternative. The exception is made for datetimes and abbr due to the fact that microformats are for humans first, machines second. Thus the content of the abbr element is used to provide human visible content and the machine equivalent is placed in the less visible (but still easily verifiable)
