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If they used absolute <time> the browser could format it to our preference (which varies). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time https

• midasuni 3y ago
  What does that actually look like for the average viewer. In the examples the output in iOS/safari is as if the tag doesn’t exist.
  • Izkata 3y ago
    Likewise on Firefox, doesn't seem to do anything despite the compatibility table saying it does.
  • marcosdumay 3y ago
    Looks to me that it's a semantic-only tag that doesn't change the text on the screen at all. The GP is just incorrectly assuming it's something different. I have no idea what a browser supporting it even means. Browsers aren't supposed to do anything with it.
    • kevincox 3y ago
      This is correct. It would be nice to have an option for the browser to format it for you. Especially since you can't reliably get the user's time zone on the server. I wrote some JS that watches the page for these and updates them to be more user friendly and use the user's locale. But it would be nice if this was the browser's problem to solve (and can consider things like non-locale preferences such as always showing the time across websites and how far relative times should stretch)
• Analemma_ 3y ago
  The dream of a web where the server simply sent data, and the client chose how to display it, is totally dead. Web designers want their websites to look a certain way right down to the pixel, and client-side display control messes that up. To be clear, it's not that you can't still do it, but the website is never going to be designed for it and actively help you.
  • dreamcompiler 3y ago
    This is just one symptom of the advertising-supported web. The web was intended to inform, but modern websites are designed to impress. Personally, I'm more impressed with websites designed to inform, but the average person apparently isn't. The Semantic Web failed for the same reason: Humans click on ads but computers don't. Hence we're left with a web that is not only designed purely for human consumption, but also to appeal to the ADD part of our simian brains that says "Oooooh. Shiny!".
    • finite_depth 3y ago
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    • arter4 3y ago
      >The Semantic Web failed for the same reason: Humans click on ads but computers don't. Do you have any source to dig deeper on this aspect? I never heard about this correlation. Then again, I'm no semantic web expert.
    • pphysch 3y ago
      The semantic web and advertising web aren't mutually exclusive. The issue is that the advertising web, which optimizes for human attention, is necessarily going to get more human attention.
    • philistine 3y ago
      I understand your point, but I am incredibly suspicious of the ad market. For that reason, I do not believe that more people than computers click on ads.
      • hluska 3y ago
        My degree is in marketing so I used to offer human versus bot click analysis as a service. The initial sale was very easy but the practice was more like grief counselling than consulting. As a result, my customers weren’t sticky - they were happier before me. And I don’t believe anyone actually changed how they bought ads as a result. A criticism of social media advertising is that it’s too easy for small business to get stuck thinking that it’s work when in reality it’s just a very boring hobby. Many digital ad campaigns don’t show a return on investment so maybe that criticism applies to digital ads too…