On May 3, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
and is not apparent to human readers
To be clear, this clause, in the absolute, is undesirable. That
is, in
following the principles of microformats, the date needs to be at
least
somewhat *visible* to humans, rather than invisible.
I think it's important to be clear about this and I find "the date
needs to be at least somewhat *visible* to humans" still very
ambiguous, as the responses so far seem to suggest. *Which* date are
you talking about? The human-readable date obviously needs to be
human-readable, but are you including the machine-readable date
here? If so, which microformats principle suggests this? Designing
for humans first suggests to me that we should give humans human-
readable dates and keep the machine-readable dates for machines. I
think this is what human readers generally prefer, and it must be
what human publishers prefer, or we wouldn't have any need for the
abbr design pattern in the first place.
Peace,
Scott
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