- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:17:53 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>, www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > John Foliot wrote: >> Some have cited microformats as an example of reusing existing >> attributes in defense of using @class to assign semantic meaning, but >> what about the "issue" that microformats has with the dating scheme >> they use, deploying the title attribute? >> [http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/] > > HTML5 introduces the <time> element to solve this problem. > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-phrase.html#the-time Sure, but that only solves one instance of the problem. There's also machine-readable geolocation for example. Presumably future data formats will come up with yet more machine-readable data that needs to be encoded into webpages. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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