<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/30 Elliotte Rusty Harold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elharo@ibiblio.org">elharo@ibiblio.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I note in <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-date-string" target="_blank">http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-date-string</a><br>
that "Dates before the year zero can't be represented as a datetime in<br>
this version of HTML." This seems a serious omission. Why can we<br>
represent the birth of Nero but not the birth of Julius Caesar? Are<br>
there plans to rectify it?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I sure hope there are! Historians and classicists are increasingly publishing to the web, and being unable to mark up years BCE in HTML 5 would hinder this. That said, marking up a year, say 1992 AD, (as opposed to a specific day within a specific month within a specific year, e.g. 3rd September 1992) also seems to be hard or impossible in HTML 5... unless I've misread the spec.</div>
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