On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Breton Slivka wrote: >> >>> I offer the challenge to those developers: If you sincerely believe >>> that simple internationalized date parsing is an unsolvable or >>> difficult problem (which, as I have pointed out has been solved >>> numerous times already, with two examples), please present your >>> evidence. Why is avoiding this work more important than Accessibility? >>> Why is avoiding this work more important than avoiding hidden >>> metadata?
> This is a simple example. There are likely better techniques for doing > this than regexes, (or not) but the point is, that you can make a > human READABLE format without having to cover the whole spectrum of > human expression. Instead, you have ONE precise format for US dates, > ONE precise format for UK dates, ONE precise format for japanese > dates, etc, etc. You stick this format of date in the title of an > ABBR, and you can say whatever you want about the date in whatever > language you like in the contents of the ABBR. The parser shouldn't > care about the contents. IT's just looking at the title. IT already > is. The only change from the current pattern is that we'd be using a > less geeky and obscure format than ISO-8601. The lang attribute of the > ABBR element provides the format in use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 Feel free to get started. I'm sure you can start a wiki page with a listing of language/region codes and the suggested date format for each. Since the current system handles every one of those languages and countries/regions, it would only be logical to expect the same of a suggested replacement. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
