- From: Jonathan Leighton <turnip@turnipspatch.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:42:29 +0000
I was talking to Anne van Kesteren[1] about this, and he suggested I posted to the mailing list. [1] http://annevankesteren.nl/ I think it would be sensible if detail was allowed to be omitted from the datetime attribute. The HTML4 specification says[2] that "If a generating application does not know the time to the second, it may use the value "00" for the seconds (and minutes and hours if necessary)". The WHATWG spec[3] doesn't say anything regarding what to do if detail is not known or needed or wanted, but in my opinion detail should be allowed to be left out. I'd like all the formats in the W3C note on Date and Time Formats[4] to be permitted. Writing "00" when a value is not known seems a bad idea to me because instead of telling the UA that the value is not known, it tells the UA that the value is zero. Leaving the value out entirely would save file size (albeit only a few bytes) and the UA would be able to differentiate between an unspecified value and a value of zero. [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.11 [3] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#datetime [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827 Kind Regards Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/
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