In my last post I pondered a markup puzzle and suggested a practical approach to using HTML5.
Since then the powers that be have decided we need a task force to decide which meta standard should be officially adopted as part of the HTML spec (micordata or RDFa). Still thy beating heart.
Not an HTML task force
Leon’s advice: Ignore and get on with your life
More talking about semantics and meaning, still no use.
However, people are using microformats in the real world.
For example, WordPress generates microformated HTML out of the box (with the hatom standard) and readability has published a set of author guidelines based on hnews. This affects millions of websites.
Microformats are popular because they’re simple to use and HTML version agnostic. They’ve been around a long time.
A long way to go
All well and good. Most blogs out there use hentry and fn even if authors have no clue what they are.
But so what?
Without knowing what Google et al do with this markup it’s all guess work.