Steve Faulkner asks for more discussion on the removal of ‹time› and the pubdate
attribute from HTML5 (it’s been replaced by the far less useful ‹data› and value
. He’s right too.
And if HTML5 is supposed to build standards around existing usage, how come the fact that many sites — including the HTML5 poster child Boston Globe and potentially millions using the default WordPress theme — has been ignored?
See also Bruce Lawson’s Goodbye HTML5 <time>, hello <data>!
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