- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:00:20 +0100
- To: HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
I suggested: > Both those examples include two instances of the <time> element, but > in each case it should be possible to distinguish the publication date > (2009-07-30) from the other date mentioned (1989-07-01) because only > the publication date was contained by a <header> or <footer>. And Jim responded: > Too fragile. > > <header> > <h1>My Brother's Wedding: > <time datetime="2008-07-04">4th of July 2008</time></h1> > <p>Pictures of the bridal party and the reception fireworks</p> > </header> True enough. I guess I've still got my microformats thinking cap on where solving 80% of the use cases is considered a success. In a markup spec, that really needs to be close to 100%, doesn't it? Still, I'd rather solve the problem (as outlined by Chaals) with visible content rather than hidden metadata. What if @pubdate were a Boolean attribute to be applied to a TIME element rather than a name/value pair applied to ARTICLE? So instead of.... <article pubdate="2009-07-30"> <header> <h2><a href="blah" rel="bookmark">Accessibility of HTML5 video</ a></h2> <time datetime="2009-07-30">Thursday 30 July 2009</time> </header> <p>Brilliantly witty, incisive prose, in a gloriously elegiac style reminiscent of <cite>Cider With Rosie</cite>.</p> </article> ....we get: <article> <header> <h2><a href="blah" rel="bookmark">Accessibility of HTML5 video</ a></h2> <time datetime="2009-07-30" pubdate>Thursday 30 July 2009</time> </header> <p>Brilliantly witty, incisive prose, in a gloriously elegiac style reminiscent of <cite>Cider With Rosie</cite>.</p> </article> That would still leave one problem which is how user agents should deal with multiple instances of TIME elements with @pubdate attributes within an ARTICLE (though I imagine that kind of authoring could be considered non-conforming). Thoughts? Jeremy -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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