On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:23 AM, George Brocklehurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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].
1. The purpose of the <object> element is to allow the browser to run an external application for a non-native data type (e.g., Java applet) [1]. 2. Safari 3 is actually handling <object> the corect way. [2] <object> is not the right way to go in this case. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.3 [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/include-pattern-feedback#Objects_and_Browser_Behavior (see point: Sarven Capadisli 16:34, 23 Jun 2008 (PDT)) _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss