Posts tagged “semantics”

• Web writers should know HTML so teach it in school

  Posted by Leon on October 31, 2011. 2 comments.

  You need to understand HTML if you want to write proper web documents, so it should be taught at school.

• HTML5 practicalities: forget microdata and RDFa and use microformats instead

  Posted by Leon on June 25, 2011. No comments.

  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 [...]

• An HTML5 challenge (which lead me to think: Why bother with HTML5 sectioning elements?)

  Posted by Leon on June 20, 2011. 4 comments.

  A challenging little HTML5 puzzle and some thoughts on whether it’s worth using article, section, aside etc. at all.

• Microformats, microdata and RDFa

  Posted by Leon on September 10, 2010. 11 comments.

  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 [...]

• Nailing the section tag

  Posted by Leon on September 7, 2010. 3 comments.

  One of the most common ‘errors’ HTML authors make is to replace div id="content" with section id="content". section should be used to group content that shares a theme; div id="content" serves two purposes, neither of which are to do with meaning.