> -----Original Message----- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:17:24 -0700 > From: Guillaume Lebleu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart > as previously thought > To: Microformats Discuss <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Belov, Charles wrote: >> I feel it is unreasonable to ask a non-technical person to produce >> ISO-format dates/times, so microformats do not produce an acceptable >> solution at this time for marking up meeting announcements. > I agree that only an editor extension would make writing ISO-format date/time practical by humans, which I never felt was compliant with "designed for humans first, machine second". > > What about the idea of a plain old English microformat ("POEM"?) based on well-known practices in various languages [1], in the tradition of "paving the cows path": these practices are pretty-well established IMO and used by authors in the newspapers, magazines, etc. For instance, in > English: > > <span class="dstart" lang="en-us">October 5, 2004</span> <span class="dstart" lang="en-us">10/5/2004</span> <span class="dstart" lang="fr">5 Octobre 2004</span> <span class="dstart" lang="fr">5/10/2004</span> > > The locale could be specified locally (lang="en-us") or inherited from the HTML document or a containing div. > > Granted it would make the parsing more complex, but it would comply with "designed for humans first, machine second". > > Also, additional class would be required to distinguish the date part from the time part in something like: > > <span class="dstart" lang="en-us"><span class="date">October 5, 2004<span> at <span > class="time">6PM</span></span>
I'd suggest modifying that to not require the computer to parse the date. Something like: <span class="dstartm" lang="en-us">October</span> <span class="dstartd">5</span>, <span class="dstarty">2004</span> Hope this helps, Charles "Chas" Belov SFMTA Webmaster _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
