[whatwg] Please consider adding "timeref" attribute to <del> and <ins> elements

[Tantek Çelik]

Summary: add a new timeref attribute (of type idref) to <del> and
<ins> elements that can be used to reference the id of a local to
document <time> element which is then used as the datetime value of
when the deletion or insertion occurred.

Advantages:
1. encourage more visible data (dates in visible content inside a
<time> element rather than in invisible datetime attribute).
2. Better DRY (don't repeat yourself) by enabling sharing of a common
<time> element for multiple del/ins edits that occurred at the same
date/time.

More reasoning/advantages/opinions provided on the wiki:

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Del_element#timeref

I encourage fellow web authors to add opinions/comments to that wiki section.

Thanks!

Tantek


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