- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:35:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Asbj?rn Ulsberg wrote: > > Reading the spec, I have to wonder: Does HTML5 need to specify as much > as it does inline? Can't more of it be referenced to ISO 8601 or even > better; RFC 3339? I really fancy how Atom (RFC 4287) has defined date > constructs: <http://www.atompub.org/rfc4287.html#date.constructs> Does > not RFC 3339 defined date and time in a satisfactory manner to use > directly in HTML5? The problem isn't so much the syntax definitions as the parsing definitions. We need very specific parsing rules; it's not clear that there is anything to refer to that does the job we need here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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