[whatwg] Use cases for the time element

[Jeremy Keith]

We seem to be straying behind the bikeshed a little bit here. My point  
wasn't to point out problems with the examples given in "common idioms  
without dedicated elements"
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/commands.html#conversations

The real problem is the definition of the <time> element itself:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element

This sentence:
"This element is intended as a way to encode modern dates and times in  
a machine-readable way so that user agents can offer to add them to  
the user's calendar."

...should be changed to:
"This element is intended as a way to encode modern dates and times in  
a machine-readable way."

The overly-restrictive clause at the end canonises a single use case  
as the only usage of the element. The fact that there examples  
elsewhere in the spec that contradict this definition highlights the  
problem, but the issue isn't with those examples; it's with the  
definition of <time>.

HTH,

Jeremy

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Jeremy Keith

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