[OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

[Minh Nguyen]

On 18:17 2013-12-01, SomeoneElse wrote:
> The changeset close time has a dotted underline and
> the mouse pointer changes from a hand to a question mark - I still don't
> know what this is supposed to signify.

That's HTML's <abbr> tag. It's primarily meant to give <abbr 
title="three-letter acronyms">TLAs</abbr> handy tooltips -- your browser 
may add a dotted underline and cursor -- but many Web designers use the 
tag for relative times and other pieces of data that humans abbreviate 
through natural language:

http://microformats.org/wiki/abbr-design-pattern
http://html5doctor.com/the-time-element/

-- 
minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us