- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:20:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Tantek ?~Gelik wrote: > > Summary: add a new timeref attribute (of type idref) to <del> and > <ins> elements that can be used to reference the id of a local to > document <time> element which is then used as the datetime value of > when the deletion or insertion occurred. > > Advantages: > 1. encourage more visible data (dates in visible content inside a > <time> element rather than in invisible datetime attribute). > 2. Better DRY (don't repeat yourself) by enabling sharing of a common > <time> element for multiple del/ins edits that occurred at the same > date/time. It's not clear that this is especially compelling, especially given that so few user agents use datetime="" at all in the first place. Making it more complicated likely wouldn't help with that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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