On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Milian Wolff wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 03. August 2006 21:26 schrieb A. Pagaltzis:
the idea being that I used “now” as a human-readable shorthand
form for 2006-08-03T21:22:44+0200. (I’m not sure about the exact
format required for the title attribute.)
So you want to be able to parse the generated html for further use?
Yes. See [the microformats wiki][1] for a bunch of sites that publish
this microformat, and you can search the web's microformatted dates
using [Technorati's microformat search tool][2]. Momentum is building
for tools to aggregate and search microformatted data.
Because else I don't get it why one should add such a date. I just
image a
disabled user with a screenreader stumbling upon the <abbr> tag (or
wherever
else you store the *extended* date) - would be quite a suprise in
my opinion
but then I dont use hCal much.
It's been discussed on the microformat-discuss list that using <abbr>
this way isn't less accessible in any practical sense. I can try to
dig it up if you're interested, but the point is moot - that is the
way the microformat is specified. I wasn't inventing anything new there.
Who is interested in the time zone that was posted in except
databases?
Users using those databases are interested. Generating the right time
zone from a user-friendly syntax for dates is a challenge of my idea,
though.
-mike
[1]:http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Implementations
[2]:http://kitchen.technorati.com/search
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