596910 - Should use datetime attribute correctly

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Input :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Trivial, but the TITLE attribute text on http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/opinion/433967 seems to be missing a space:

<time title="2010-09-13T13:44:59Z">2 days, 18 hours ago</time>

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

A space? Where? What's *rather* possible is that this should be the datetime attribute and not "title". Or the ISO 8601 time should be in datetime and a more human-readable equivalent in the title tag.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A space? Where? What's *rather* possible is that this should be the datetime
> attribute and not "title". Or the ISO 8601 time should be in datetime and a
> more human-readable equivalent in the title tag.

You're right -- I hadn't heard of that before; cool.

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Is this still something that needs to be fixed?

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

For the sake of "real" HTML5, yes. P3 though.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

That'll somewhat magically be fixed as part of bug 598029.

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

This is included here: http://github.com/fwenzel/reporter/commit/0aa0181

The title attribute now contains a localized, full date and time. The datetime attribute, however, contains an ISO timestamp, like the HTML 5 standard wants us to have.

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED: http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Finput.stage.mozilla.com%2Fen-US%2Fopinion%2F433967