- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:08:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2009, 07:27 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Asbj?rn Ulsberg wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:59:11 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > - the literal letters T and Z must be uppercase > > > > > > Any technical reason why they have to? > > > > > Any reason why they don't? > > > > > > > > It simplifies processing a tiny amount. > > > > > > So for a tiny win, you change the format? > > > > By a tiny amount, yes. > > It will be interesting to see if parsers choose to also "get" lowercase > letters. I'd half-expect that to work, not at least because there may > already be RFC-compliant libraries in the wild. The spec explicitly points out that implementors shouldn't naively use ISO8601 libraries. > So if they do by the time HTML n is the standard, will the uppercase > restriction be removed in HTML n+1 ? HTML5 itself will have to change if the implementations don't implement what it says. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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