so, English reads left to right. Hebrew, Arabic, etc. don't. so if we have

    <span class="author">Joe</span> posted
    on <time>Jan 1, 2014</time>

we now have three different segments that our users would read. in English, this ordering makes logical sense. but in other languages this may not be the case. for example, in Arabic this becomes

    جو ارسال شده در ژانویه 1، 2014