[uf-discuss] ISO Dates and Durations using Style

[Martin McEvoy]

Martin McEvoy wrote:
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>> Opera implemented support for CSS's "content" property on real 
>>> elements (as against pseudo-elements) a very long time ago (Opera 5 
>>> or 6 IIRC) but dropped it later on.
>>
>> Actually, "content" appears to be working with Opera 9.52 Mac and 
>> <span class="bday" style="content:'1968-01-04';">4th Jan, 1968</span> 
>> right now. So I guess we can scrap the "if". The solution wouldn't 
>> work as desired even with today's browsers.
> Oh! this is true, tested on IE8, FF3 Chrome nothing changed
>
> Tested on Opera9.5 content: does work.. OK thanks all for letting me 
> bang my head against a wall again ;-)
> I give up!

One question what is actually wrong with using an extension eg:

<span class="bday" style="-uf-content:'1968-01-04';">4th Jan, 1968</span>

apart from the CSS validation issues, which when you compare it with the 
current <abbr> and @title accessibility issues doesn't seem so bad to me?

Thanks

Martin McEvoy
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Martin McEvoy
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>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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