[whatwg] Historic dates in HTML5
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Thu Mar 5 04:05:37 PST 2009
On Mar 5, 2009, at 13:50, Bruce Lawson wrote:
> And if there is a limit on a use case, it should be in the spec.
> There is nothing I can see in the editors draft that limits the use
> of <time>.
I think that's a spec bug.
> (I use it on my website to markup publication dates of blog entries
> and comments; why on earth wouldn't I?)
You wouldn't if there's no tangible benefit in sight, i.e. no known
client app for consuming your markup in a useful way.
> Henri is right: <code>time</code> is pretty much pointless in HTML5
> if it's not embraced by the microformats community, but why would
> they embrace it?
They might want to adopt it to avoid accessibility problems with the
<abbr> design pattern:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml
> It prevents them doing a lot of what they do - like fuzzy or ancient
> dates - so what do they gain by adopting it?
Are hCalendar entries with fuzzy or ancient dates good for anything?
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Henri Sivonen
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