Bob Jonkman wrote:
Hi all: Today I had the urge to mark up an arbitrary date, not one
that is part of
an hCalendar event, eg.
Use version 7.0.2 from <abbr title="2007-03-05">5 March 2007</span>
This is to provide some standarization in presenting dates, but
keep them human-
readable in arbitrary format.
dtstart and dtend aren't appropriate semantic classes in this
example. Is there a
proper microformat for arbitrary dates?
In this case, I think what you are looking for is the 'datetime'
attribute on INS and DEL elements.
<ins datetime="2007-03-05">5 March 2007</ins>
This has nothing to do with microformats; it's just semantic HTML. It
specifies the time of the insertion or deletion, so I think it's
quite appropriate for specifying when a version was released.
From the HTML 4 DTD attribute list for INS or DEL.
cite %URI; #IMPLIED -- info on reason for
change --
datetime %Datetime; #IMPLIED -- date and time of change --
Given that, you might also want to specify the URI for version changes.
<ins cite="/whatsnew/7.0.2/" datetime="2007-03-05">Use version
7.0.2 from 5 March 2007.</ins>
Opinionated rant: ins[datetime] has the added benefit of not sounding
like absolute dreck in the more popular screen readers, which is more
than one can claim for the Datetime Design Pattern.
James
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