Re: [whatwg] Please consider adding timeref attribute to del and ins elements
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Tantek �~Gelik wrote: Summary: add a new timeref attribute (of type idref) to del and ins elements that can be used to reference the id of a local to document time element which is then used as the datetime value of when the deletion or insertion occurred. Advantages: 1. encourage more visible data (dates in visible content inside a time element rather than in invisible datetime attribute). 2. Better DRY (don't repeat yourself) by enabling sharing of a common time element for multiple del/ins edits that occurred at the same date/time. It's not clear that this is especially compelling, especially given that so few user agents use datetime= at all in the first place. Making it more complicated likely wouldn't help with that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E)\._.,--,'``.fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A/, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
[whatwg] Please consider adding timeref attribute to del and ins elements
Summary: add a new timeref attribute (of type idref) to del and ins elements that can be used to reference the id of a local to document time element which is then used as the datetime value of when the deletion or insertion occurred. Advantages: 1. encourage more visible data (dates in visible content inside a time element rather than in invisible datetime attribute). 2. Better DRY (don't repeat yourself) by enabling sharing of a common time element for multiple del/ins edits that occurred at the same date/time. More reasoning/advantages/opinions provided on the wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Del_element#timeref I encourage fellow web authors to add opinions/comments to that wiki section. Thanks! Tantek -- http://tantek.com/ I made an HTML5 tutorial video/book! http://tantek.com/html5
