Keep pubdate and add moddate
Back in November I wrote a bit about defending the pubdate
attribute in HTML5’s <time>
element which is currently under proposal to be removed from the HTML5 specification.
Well I finally found the time to write a change proposal requesting that the pubdate
attribute remain, and for a moddate
attribute to be added. The pubdate
attribute is already in widespread use, since many WordPress themes already use it. Since that fact alone greatly helped the <time>
element to be reinstated in the HTML5 specification, surely it should carry some weight here too.
We’ll see.
Update
Marat Tanalin also recommends keeping the pubdate attribute and also recommends a moddate
type attribute (update
or pubupdate
). I had somehow missed his recommendations.