On Mar 5, 2009, at 01:29, Jim O'Donnell wrote:
Is there any suitable markup in HTML5 for dates in digitised
documents from museums, libraries and archives?
What would consuming software do with those dates?
The <time> element is meant as a replacement for the microformat
<abbr> design pattern in hCalendar (if the microformat community
embraces <time>; if not, <time> in pretty much pointless in HTML5).
The expected use cases of hCalendar are mainly transferring *future*
event entries from a Web page into an application like iCal.
Conceivable, one might perhaps also want to support entries that
encode the birthday (in the past) of a living person with an annual
repeat.
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Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
