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Research, data, use cases, issues, and enhancements related to the HTML5 time element.
year only
The time element should accept just a year.
- ISO8601 syntax
- YYYY
- use case research
- http://microformats.org/wiki/birthday-examples#year_only
Opinions / discusion:
- +1 Faruk (per Bug 7145 - Valid date strings should accept ambiguous inputs, like "2009" or "2007-01") One example is the very common archive view found on most blogs, which contain distinct links or headers for each year, each month per year, and often each date within a chosen or highlighted month. Currently, the
<time>element only allows fordatetimevalues as precise as a specific day, e.g. YYYY-MM-DD. - -1 Hixie - "Without clear use cases, I don't intend to change the spec here." (ibid)
- +1 Tantek (per HTML5 Super Friends Technical Details: time element)
year month only
The time element should accept just a year and a month.
- ISO8601 syntax
- YYYY-MM
Opinions / discusion:
- +1 Faruk (per Bug 7145 - Valid date strings should accept ambiguous inputs, like "2009" or "2007-01") One example is the very common archive view found on most blogs, which contain distinct links or headers for each year, each month per year, and often each date within a chosen or highlighted month. Currently, the
<time>element only allows fordatetimevalues as precise as a specific day, e.g. YYYY-MM-DD. - -1 Hixie - "Without clear use cases, I don't intend to change the spec here." (ibid)
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month day only
The time element should accept just a month and a day.
- ISO8601 syntax
- --MM-DD
- use case research
- http://microformats.org/wiki/birthday-examples#month_and_day_only
Opinions / discusion:
- +1 Tantek (per HTML5 Super Friends Technical Details: time element)
- +1 "radiz" implied support for --MM-DD with the use case question: "How to use <time> with a date in astrology?" in the article http://html5doctor.com/your-questions-answered-6/