[whatwg] Parsing RFC3339 constructs

[Nils Dagsson Moskopp]

Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2009, 07:27 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:59:11 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > >   - the literal letters T and Z must be uppercase
> > > > > Any technical reason why they have to?
> > > > Any reason why they don't?
> > > 
> > > It simplifies processing a tiny amount.
> > 
> > So for a tiny win, you change the format?
> 
> By a tiny amount, yes.

It will be interesting to see if parsers choose to also "get" lowercase
letters. I'd half-expect that to work, not at least because there may
already be RFC-compliant libraries in the wild.

So if they do by the time HTML n is the standard, will the uppercase
restriction be removed in HTML n+1 ?

Cheers
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Nils Dagsson Moskopp
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