Re: [whatwg] Please consider allowing del datetime and ins datetime attribute to accept only a date

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Tantek �~Gelik wrote:

 Currently the datetime attribute requires both a date and a time.

 On the other hand, the time element's datetime attribute allows just a 
 date.

 Allowing just a date [is] easier for hand-authoring [...]. Authors can 
 more easily add ins/del elements with explicit datetime attributes if 
 they are permitted to specify only the date (they might not know or care 
 about the precise time), e.g. in blog posts that are updated by the 
 author.

 [Allowing just a date] avoids artificial precision. Forcing an explicit 
 date and time forces authors to enter artificial precision (e.g. 
 -MM-DDT00:00:00Z instead of -MM-DD). Allowing just dates permits 
 authors to convey that a del/ins occurred on a certain day, and that the 
 precise time is unknown or irrelevant.

 this happens to me often when I have blog-like or other essay content 
 that I update by hand. Since I typically do updates to any particular 
 content about once a day, day-level granularity is sufficient. Picking 
 an arbitrary time seems like being forced to provide fake metadata 
 which I don't want to do.

Fixed.

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[whatwg] Please consider allowing del datetime and ins datetime attribute to accept only a date

[Tantek Çelik]

In short: the datetime attribute (on both del and ins elements) should
permit just a date value, in addition to permitting explicit dates
with times.

Reasoning/advantages provided on the wiki:

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Del_element

I encourage fellow web authors to add opinions/comments to that wiki page.

Thanks!

Tantek

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