|
Grex > Web > #4: Microformats and the Semantic Web | |
|
| Author |
Message |
| 4 new of 10 responses total. |
madmike
|
|
response 7 of 10:
| 
Sep 30 19:59 UTC 2008 |
This Microformats buisness points out the benefits inherent in
standards based design. In other words...
Present your content in tagged heirarchal format and the end user can
better choose the best means to parse the information (to suit their
own situation.)
See also, XML ;-)
|
madmike
|
|
response 8 of 10:
|
Oct 23 12:33 UTC 2008 |
I just found a recent article regarding Microformats. For - perhaps -
some fresh info on the subject check this page.
http://www.visitmix.com/Articles/Prototype-Oomph-A-Microformats-Toolkit
|
remmers
|
|
response 9 of 10:
|
Oct 23 21:43 UTC 2008 |
The sentiment behind microformats is great. After reading
microformats-related mailing lists for a while, I've got some
reservations about the execution, which strikes me as
overly-politicized. Ad hoc centralized body to give a microformat some
official "stamp of approval", but unfortunately an ill-defined proces
for reaching such approval. People go around and around for month after
month after month...
An alternative approach that appears to be gaining traction is RDFa, a
standard for embedding RDF semantic information in XHTML. It's recently
become an official W3C recommendation.
|
cross
|
|
response 10 of 10:
|
Sep 2 10:04 UTC 2012 |
Nearly four years on....
What is the current status of microformats? Microdata is part of HTML5, which
seems to be the future (unfortunately? I feel like they threw out the baby
with the bathwater on giving up on XHTML. Say what you will about XML, but
at least you knew it was well-formed). RDFa has more marketshare than
microdata, but less than microformats. Microformats seem to have more than
both combined; what should one choose?
|