- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:10:04 -0400
> Orthodoxy has it that there is no use case for marking up an ancient date > or "fuzzy date" like "June 2009" using <time>. I disagree, and this has > been discussed many times before. Do you have any concrete use cases or > examples of how marking these up using <time> would be necessary? Whether or not it is useful, wikipedia does it -- a fair number of 4-digit numbers are linked to a page of "things that happened this year", but those pages are far from complete -- they often don't even include the events being linked from. In theory, that could be done with a span and a class ... but the ad hoc solutions have clearly been found wanting. I would sometimes like to search on a date range, as opposed to a specific date; right now, I'm not sure how to do that cross-domain; if there were a "time" element, I would expect it to be used often enough that time searches would be more reasonable. These may all fail to the 80% rule, but ... they are of at least some utility, and I'm not sure how much harder it is to support them, given that <time> will exist, and parsing rules already have to be aware of such dates to the extent of figuring out what to do for error-processing. -jJ
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