2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Mike Shaver<[email protected]> wrote: >> Can the historical-timeline community perhaps work with a microformat >> for such things, so that we can standardize on the basis of experience >> using the technology in the field, rather than on speculative uses? > > I'd actually advise against trying to push this to the Microformats > group. They're about marking up visible data in such a way that a > machine can parse it. > > This discussion so far seems to be about taking a visible date (or > date range, possibly fuzzy) in an arbitrary calendar, and marking it > up with an invisible date in the proleptic gregorian calendar, with > support for ranges and fuzziness.
Spot on.
