[whatwg] proposal: extend <time> to markup durations

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Tantek Ã~Gelik wrote:
>
> Some in the microformats community have been making good use of the 
> <time> element, e.g. for publishing hCalendar, and implementing 
> consuming/converting hCalendar [1] with good success.
> 
> It would be great if the <time> element could support expressing 
> durations as well for the use cases as needed by the hMedia and hAudio 
> microformats as well as other use-cases (Wikipedia, IMDB).

I've since added this feature. It supports both the hard-to-read but 
pretty well-established ISO8601 duration syntax:

   <time>PT4H18M3S</time>

...and a slightly easier-to-read syntax:

   <time>4h 18m 3s</time>


Earlier in this thread I suggested maybe dropping <time> altogether, with 
a more generic replacement. Having tried that and gotten lots of negative 
feedback on the topic, I've since changed the spec again and we now have 
both a generic element for machine-readable data, <data>, as well as an 
element specifically for time-related machine-readable data, <time>.

The old <time> element, with its rendering rules and DOM API, are gone.

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