ReadWriteWeb:
Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to co (Read More)
Submitted by davepreston
from Twitter:
Reading about hCalendar microformats to put events on the church website (this is why I never get anything done :), too bogged down). (Read More)
Submitted by keywest
from Google Reader:
Much of HTML 5’s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to in (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Today at Searchology, Google has launched a search results enhancement called “rich snippets” that uses meta data from web pages (from microformats such as hCard, hCalendar, and RDF) to display additional details (both conten (Read More)
Submitted by pfefferle
from blog:
Das bisher wohl größte Problem bei der Verwendung von Microformats ist (oder besser wahr) die Accessibility durch die etwas zweckentfremdete Verwendung des -Tags.Das so genanntes abbr-design-pattern diente hauptsächlich dazu (Read More)
Submitted by mrkrm
from Google Reader:
Writing and Sharing Data Can be Lightened UpEver since I first started to learn in earnest about ontology, something has been gnawing at me. The term seemed to be (shall I say?) an obtuse one whose obscurity was not the resu (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman celebrated his birthday today by releasing a plug-in for Dreamweaver that checks for and alerts users of web standards shortcomings in their design. Jeffrey Zeldman's Web Standards Advisor cos (Read More)
A List Apart:
The BBC's dropping of hCalendar because of accessibility and usability concerns demonstrates that we have pushed the semantic capability of HTML far beyond what it can handle. The need to clearly and unambiguously add rich, m (Read More)
Submitted by kenmat
from Google Reader:
All microformats are are standardized ID and Class names to wrap data in. Really. That’s it.Say you are having a birthday party next week and you are posting about it on the web. That event has a name (Birthday party!), a loc (Read More)