- From: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:10:21 +0100
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:05:10 +0100, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote: > > > I sure hope there are! Historians and classicists are increasingly > publishing to the web, and being unable to mark up years BCE in HTML 5 > would > hinder this. That said, marking up a year, say 1992 AD, (as opposed to a > specific day within a specific month within a specific year, e.g. 3rd > September 1992) also seems to be hard or impossible in HTML 5... unless > I've > misread the spec. 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? -- Hang loose and stay groovy, Bruce Lawson Web Evangelist www.opera.com (work) www.brucelawson.co.uk (personal)
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