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Bug 12581 - <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], ...
Summary: <time> In the section about the time element it is stated that it does not ne...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Depends on: 13240
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Reported: 2011-05-02 10:08 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-11 22:27 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-05-02 10:08:58 UTC 
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.

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:20 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-11 22:27:44 UTC 
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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.