Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Martin Janecke wrote: (1) There's the example of relative date phrases that refer to an absolute date. For example: time datetime='2009'Last year/time's temperature was above average. What's the use case here? What problem is this solving that isn't solved by just

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-09-01 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 31.08.2010 22:21 schrieb Martin Janecke: Am 31.08.10 21:40, schrieb Aryeh Gregor: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Martin Janeckewhatwg@kaor.in wrote: Besides,time2010/time in a British news article would allow users e.g. in Japan to have these dates displayed as 平22年. That's clearly

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-09-01 Thread Smylers
Aryeh Gregor writes: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I think localisation does have a valid use though. Consider a page written in English with the date 01/12/2010. Is that date the 1st December, or the 12th January? The only clue might

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-09-01 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Because as I mentioned, content authors tend to be quite lazy, and leave default settings on. So lots of English people end up using American spelling, and American date formatting, because that's what their

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-31 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Martin Janecke whatwg@kaor.in wrote: Besides, time2010/time in a British news article would allow users e.g. in Japan to have these dates displayed as 平22年. That's clearly an advantage over the number 2010 alone. I would say the opposite. If they can read

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-31 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:40 -0400, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Martin Janecke whatwg@kaor.in wrote: Besides, time2010/time in a British news article would allow users e.g. in Japan to have these dates displayed as 平22年. That's clearly an advantage over the

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-31 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I think localisation does have a valid use though. Consider a page written in English with the date 01/12/2010. Is that date the 1st December, or the 12th January? The only clue might be the spelling of certain

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-31 Thread Martin Janecke
Am 31.08.10 21:40, schrieb Aryeh Gregor: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Martin Janeckewhatwg@kaor.in wrote: Besides,time2010/time in a British news article would allow users e.g. in Japan to have these dates displayed as 平22年. That's clearly an advantage over the number 2010 alone. I

Re: [whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-31 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:09 -0400, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I think localisation does have a valid use though. Consider a page written in English with the date 01/12/2010. Is that date the 1st December, or the

[whatwg] time element feedback

2010-08-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Tantek �~Gelik wrote: the new time element is very useful for absolute dates and times, but omits several useful granularity levels, in particular for dates. The following additional date granularities would be useful, and are fairly straightforward to incorporate into