12581 2011-05-02 10:08:58 +0000 <time> In the section about the time element it is stated that it does not need the datetime attribute set if its textContent is a valid date or time string. So the selector here in the rendering section, time[datetime], ... 2011-08-11 22:27:44 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-time-element-0 P3 normal --- 13240 1 contributor ian ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47838 0 contributor 2011-05-02 10:08:58 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-time-element-0 Comment: In the section about the time element it is stated that it does not need the datetime attribute set if its textContent is a valid date or time string. So the selector here in the rendering section, time[datetime], might mislead implementors to not apply a time binding if the attribute is missing but the textContent is a valid date or time string. Posted from: 78.52.70.139 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1 52913 1 mike 2011-08-04 05:05:20 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 54745 2 ian 2011-08-11 22:27:44 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It wouldn't be misleading them, that's exactly the idea. The UA is only supposed to change the rendering if the datetime attribute is present.