Charles Belov wrote:

> Remember that any page these occur on would presumably
have a language
> specification such as "en-us" so computers
would be able to deal with
> standard month and day of week names and
abbreviations.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like a really bad idea. Parsers
would need to
maintain translation tables for day and month names, plus
abbreviations
for them, plus some sort of heuristic for figuring out the
language of the
page. (In practice, many authors leave out lang/xml:lang
attributes, and
Content-Language headers.)

Andy Mabbett's proposed "data:" prefix already
solves the abbr design
pattern accessibility issue and can be implemented in just a
few lines of
code. All we need to do is build support for it into
parsers. (Cognition
has supported it since alpha2.1.)

Closest thing to a "specification" for the
prefix:
http://microformats.org/discu
ss/mail/microformats-discuss/2008-February/011583.html

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Toby Inkster
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<http://tobyinkster.co.uk
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