[uf-discuss] One more shot at accessible hCalendar

Ciaran McNulty mail at ciaranmcnulty.com
Wed May 21 01:07:14 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Zhang Zhen <lunaticsunblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> But someone might argue that "2008-5-21T09:22+08:00" wouldn't be a
> human-readable date. As far as I know, HTML4.01 doesn't offer an
> attribute for the machine-readable purpose and abbr design pattern
> seems relatively the best way to do the job, but it's not perfect.

As another aside, HTML5 has the proposed TIME element for exactly this.

<time datetime="2008-05-23 17:00:00">Friday 5pm</time>

-Ciaran McNulty


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