- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:05:37 +0200
On Mar 5, 2009, at 13:50, Bruce Lawson wrote: > And if there is a limit on a use case, it should be in the spec. > There is nothing I can see in the editors draft that limits the use > of <time>. I think that's a spec bug. > (I use it on my website to markup publication dates of blog entries > and comments; why on earth wouldn't I?) You wouldn't if there's no tangible benefit in sight, i.e. no known client app for consuming your markup in a useful way. > Henri is right: <code>time</code> is pretty much pointless in HTML5 > if it's not embraced by the microformats community, but why would > they embrace it? They might want to adopt it to avoid accessibility problems with the <abbr> design pattern: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml > It prevents them doing a lot of what they do - like fuzzy or ancient > dates - so what do they gain by adopting it? Are hCalendar entries with fuzzy or ancient dates good for anything? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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