- From: <jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:33:00 -0500
Thanks Henri, Is <time> then like <address> in HTML 4? ie. intended for certain dates only, just as <address> may not be used to mark up all addresses? In that case, the spec should be clear on correct and incorrect usage, with examples of both to guide authors. Bruce Lawson uses <time> to mark up the dates of blog posts in the HTML5 version of his wordpress templates. Is this incorrect usage of HTML5? If not, how should HTML5 blog templates work when the blog is dated from 1665 (http://pepysdiary.com) or 1894 (http://www.cosmicdiary1894.blogspot.com/)? Regards Jim Original Message: ----------------- From: Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:04:45 +0200 To: jim at eatyourgreens.org.uk, whatwg at lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Historic dates in HTML5 On Mar 5, 2009, at 01:29, Jim O'Donnell wrote: > Is there any suitable markup in HTML5 for dates in digitised > documents from museums, libraries and archives? What would consuming software do with those dates? The <time> element is meant as a replacement for the microformat <abbr> design pattern in hCalendar (if the microformat community embraces <time>; if not, <time> in pretty much pointless in HTML5). The expected use cases of hCalendar are mainly transferring *future* event entries from a Web page into an application like iCal. Conceivable, one might perhaps also want to support entries that encode the birthday (in the past) of a living person with an annual repeat. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web
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