2009/7/30 Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> > I note in > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-date-string > that "Dates before the year zero can't be represented as a datetime in > this version of HTML." This seems a serious omission. Why can we > represent the birth of Nero but not the birth of Julius Caesar? Are > there plans to rectify it?
I sure hope there are! Historians and classicists are increasingly publishing to the web, and being unable to mark up years BCE in HTML 5 would hinder this. That said, marking up a year, say 1992 AD, (as opposed to a specific day within a specific month within a specific year, e.g. 3rd September 1992) also seems to be hard or impossible in HTML 5... unless I've misread the spec.
