- From: Calogero Alex Baldacchino <alex.baldacchino@email.it>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:42:51 +0100
Lachlan Hunt ha scritto: > Pentasis wrote: >> Ian Hickson wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Pentasis wrote: >>>> "The primary use cases for these elements are for marking up >>>> publication >>>> dates e.g. in blog entries, and for marking event dates in hCalendar >>>> markup. Thus the DOM APIs are likely to be used as ways to generate >>>> interactive calendar widgets or some such." >>>> >>>> I agree with this, so disregard my previous remarks on this subject. I >>>> would however recommend dropping the word "primary". > > Note that what you've quoted was from a note about a potential issue > with the DOM APIs which appears in the last formally published WD, but > which has since been removed from the current editor's draft. > >>> I wouldn't want to make people think their particular use case was >>> excluded. What if someone wanted to use a date to indicate the time an >>> entry was added, for instance? Hence the word "primary". >> >> This confuses me again ;-) Sorry. Are you saying that examples and >> use-cases will be excluded from the spec? > > No. It's just that the note didn't list all possible use cases and > that there are other similar use cases for marking up contemporary > dates which are equally valid. > In other words, the normative section of the spec will be as generic as possible, while a non-normative section will cover a bounch of use cases and examples, without pretending to be exahustive with regard to all possible use cases. Am I wrong? -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: CheBanca! La prima banca che ti d? gli interessi in anticipo. * Fino al 4,70% sul Conto Deposito, zero spese e interessi subito. Aprilo! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=8435&d=25-11
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