ACRONYM-Tag oddities?

[Nils Holland]

Hi everyone!

Well, it is entirely possible that I'm too stupid for something, but I have 
observed the following behavior in Konqueror 3.2.1:

SITUATION: There's a HTML page making use of the <acronym>-Tag like this:

<acronym title="Some text here...">Test</acronym>

In the CSS-file associated with that page we find this:

acronym {
        border-bottom: 1px dashed #00cc00;
        cursor: help;
}

RESULT: The word "Test" would appear underlined with a green dotted line, and 
upon moving and pausing the mouse cursor upon it, the cursor turns into the 
"help cursor" (arrow with question mark attached) and after a while the text 
"Some text here..." is shown in a tooltip kind of thingie. *This* is what I'd 
expect and entirely fine. But...:

SITUATION: A webpage uses the following code:

<acronym title="Now we want this text to pop up."><script>
var eventdate = new Date("May 1, 2005 00:00:00 GMT");
d=new Date();
count=Math.floor((eventdate.getTime()-d.getTime())/1000);
count=Math.floor(count/(60*60*24));
document.write(count);
</script></acronym>

You see, this is some JavaScript that calculates a number within an 
<acronym>-tag. Additionally, we have this in the page's associated CSS-file:

 acronym {
	border-bottom: 1px dashed #00cc00;
	cursor: help;
}

RESULT: The number that the script calculates is shown in Konqueror correctly 
with a green dotted underline. The mouse cursor also changes into the "help 
cursor" shape upon moving it over there. However, no matter how long one 
waits, the text that is specified in title=""and should be shown in this 
tooltip thingy does not appear.

I've been wondering for a while why this is so. Is it because in the second 
example there's this JavaScript stuff inside the <acronym>-tag? At least 
Mozilla and as I have been told MSIE don't seem to care, as in them the 
second example works just like the first one without JavaScript does.

To check this out live, you can find something like the first example on the 
website of the PHP Project at http://www.php.net, and the second Java-script 
using acronym in the forum at http://persoenlichkeit-und-psyche.de/forum .

So ... can this be considered a bug and should it actually work? Or shouldn't 
JavaScript be used within an <acronym>-tag and that it does not work 
correctly is ok? Probably there's also something entirely different wrong 
that I have not noticed yet. If somebody has a clue ... thanks in 
advance! ;-)

Greetings,
Nils