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. Leon’s advice: Ignore [...]
Microdata gives us a framework for telling machines what our content means. Just be careful of Google’s willingness to step beyond microformats, microdata and RDF when writing your markup.
A post on Brian Cray’s blog got me thinking about the ways we can add more information to our web documents so they basically do more stuff. I like a good chat about the semantics of HTML5 tags as much as the next man, but I am certainly no expert on microdata (or The Semantic [...]
It’s often considered ‘good practice’ to make our HTML as meaningful as possible by using class names that relate to an element’s purpose rather than its appearance. But can class names actually give content a semantic ‘boost’? And does using presentational names somehow make our content less meaningful?