393851 - acronym attribute is not supported

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253012

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Zhang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070723 Iceweasel/2.0.0.6 (Debian-2.0.0.6-0etch1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082201 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

acronym attribute is not supported

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Browser and open the test page
2. Check the expected result described on the page
Actual Results:  
The word 'radar' is not displayed with capital letters, so acronym attribute is
not supported. It is working with Opera.

Expected Results:  
Expected result is the same as described - the word 'radar' is displayed with
capital letters

Comment 1

[Kevin Zhang]

Attachment: testcase

test page attached.

Comment 2

[Brian Polidoro]

I don't see anywhere in the spec that says acronyms are supposed to be capitalized.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1

They even show radar as an example in lower case.