Ian Hickson:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2009, 07:27 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
- the literal letters T and Z must be uppercase
It simplifies processing a tiny amount.
So for a tiny win, you change the format?
By a tiny amount, yes.
It will be interesting to see if parsers choose to also "get"
lowercase
letters. I'd half-expect that to work, not at least because there may
already be RFC-compliant libraries in the wild.
The spec explicitly points out that implementors shouldn't naively use
ISO8601 libraries.
That is not naivity! It is a standard's duty to correctly integrate
other standards. If HTML 5 uses a subset of ISO 8601 then content
processors must be able to use generic ISO-conformant parsers.
Content providers OTOH may be required to restrict their generators.
As soon as they discover what else is accepted by browsers etc.,
though, they will use it. Ergo HTML 5 should, from the beginning,
support whatever parts of ISO 8601 common libraries cover already.
Unless, of course, we presume that HTML implementors will use
homebrewed code only.
