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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Suggest adding a fallback title to time element

Reported by ji...@warting.se, Jan 26 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
<time datetime="2018-01-26T14:53:58.440Z">today</time>

What is the expected behavior?
If you would position your mouse over the time element and it has a datetime attribute but no title it would be nice if a default localized title message like "26 January 2018 15:53:58 CET" in your own timezone

What went wrong?
Time element is for presenting dates and times in a machine readable format. but it doesn't serve much else purpose. It's useless. would be nice if it could do something useful

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 63.0.3239.132  Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.13.2
Flash Version:
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M63

Comment 2 by tkent@chromium.org, Feb 5 2018

Labels: -Type-Bug -Pri-2 OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Windows Pri-3 Type-Feature
Owner: tkent@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
It's a nice idea.  However the browser engine doesn't have datetime string parser for <time> now, and developing it only for <time> tooltip isn't reasonable.

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