`time` element syntax

[David Chambers]

Three people on markdown-discuss in agreement? Must be a new record. :)

Thanks for weighing in, Waylan.

David


On 5 June 2011 18:57, Waylan Limberg <waylan at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:35 PM, David Chambers

> <david.chambers.05 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> >>

> >> I'd tend to go for something even simpler:

> >>

> >>        Some text 30 May 2011 more text.

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>        *[30 May 2011]: 2011-05-30 15:00 -07:00

> >>

> >> Basically, why do we need to force brackets in the text at all? Also,

> why

> >> force the writer to use 'T' as a time separator and strictly follow to

> the

> >> rules of HTML date syntax? It's much more readable without the 'T'.

> >> Reformatting it to HTML's liking should be pretty trivial.

> >

> > I love this idea. I'm unfamiliar with PHP Markdown Extra's abbreviation

> > syntax (I'll read up on it); building upon an established convention

> sounds

> > very sensible to me.

>

> I'll have to say I like this as well. It hadn't occurred to me that

> like the abbreviation syntax, we don't need to mark up the text at

> all.

>

> Regarding the time v. datetime, I picked datetime because that is the

> name of the html attribute the same value would be assigned to. But

> time is certainly shorter. Maybe you won't need either as Michel

> suggests.

>

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