- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:09:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Christoph P?per wrote: > Ian Hickson: > > 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: > > > > > > > > > - the literal letters T and Z must be uppercase > > > > > > 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. > > That is not naivity! It is a standard's duty to correctly integrate other > standards. If HTML 5 uses a subset of ISO 8601 then content processors must be > able to use generic ISO-conformant parsers. No, sorry, ISO-8601 is too vague to make that possible. It doesn't define error handling, for instance. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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