Hi Jeremy,
I'd be interested in hearing other arguments for or against this idea.
I think it's a humans vs. machines issue. To my mind, the ABBR element is there to provide additional information to the user (the human). In this case, it's being used to add a timestamp in a format that I've never heard a human use. To put it another way, it's not adding information for the user; it's adding data for the machine. IMHO the ABBR title should always enrich, explain or disambiguate the contents of the ABBR tag. Using a full-string timestamp doesn't do that (nor does geo data, to touch on a related problem). Although it's tremendously useful for uf parsing, I think it's trumped by the problems it causes for screen reader users. So, I'd be happy to see the title shifted to a span - still not entirely perfect I suppose, but it leaves ABBR to the humans :) cheers, Ben -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
