[uf-discuss] Re: Putting microformats on the BBC iPlayer

[Toby A Inkster]

Toby A Inkster wrote:

> It is fair enough to take time to consider these things carefully before
> issuing an edict (perhaps if that had been done to begin with we would
> have never ended up with a broken datetime design pattern), but while
> the community dithers over deciding upon a replacement, more and more
> instances of this inaccessible pattern are deployed.

An example of the inaccessible datetime pattern can now be seen in the 
Microsoft WebSlice whitepaper[1]. The further it spreads, the harder it 
will be to fix.

(Also it's worth noting that the first four HTML examples in the paper 
contain invalid HTML.)

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1. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?
ProjectName=ie8whitepapers&ReleaseId=567

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