George Brocklehurst wrote:
Is it worth revisiting Tantek's original suggestion of using the
object element to represent dates? [1]
The idea was to do something like this:
<object data="20050125">January 25</object>
From what Tantek said on his blog, the main reason for not using
objects was that they were not well supported in Safari. However,
Safari's object support is now much improved: fallbacks are supported
and display:inline and intrinsic sizing will work correctly. Safari
2.0.2, which came out in November 2005, was the first version to
contain these improvements [2].
It might be that there are other reasons for not using <object> that
I've missed (I'm fairly new to the wonderful world of Microformats)
and it might be that there's still a significant population of Safari
users on 2.0.1 or older, but if not this could be a way forward that
gets around the <abbr> issue.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but no-one has replied, so...
Using the object element seems like a very sensible solution. What are
the blocking issues now that Safari handles it? I've run a few quick
tests and Firefox,Opera, Safari and IE7 seem ok. IE6 won't display the
content, but that may be an issue with my copy of MultipleIE. According
to the Include-pattern page on the wiki (
http://microformats.org/wiki/include-pattern ) this may be due my to
ActiveX being disabled/broken.
The focus seems to have drifted toward smarter parsing of dates, but the
two nice things about the title="somethingmachinereadible" pattern were
that it could potentially be used for other data (not just dates), and
that it was simple enough for us muggles to understand and implement.
Any thoughts?
Ed
Just a thought,
G
[1] http://tantek.com/log/2005/01.html
[2] http://webkit.org/blog/32/webkit-fixes-in-safari-202-mac-os-x-1043/
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