A couple of weeks back I wrote about some experimental search features at Yahoo! which used microformatted content on a page to provide innovative search results and functionality.
Now, via ReadWriteWeb, we learn that Yahoo! is opening their search platform, and supporting search of structured data in web pages, specifically microformats and RDFa.
Amit Kumar, a big […]
To huge fanfare, Google this week announced Knol. We really know little about it, other than what we might glean from a single blog post by Udi Manber, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, which hasn’t stopped breathless coverage in mainstream media and the blogosphere alike. My initial response was tepid, to say the best, and […]
In true meme style, the concept of POSH , or “plain old semantic HTML” has been sweeping many developer sites and blogs, particularly those focussed on microformats and semantic markup.
The term itself in the sense it is currently being used was coined only 3 weeks ago or so, (though uses of the expression, but not […]
In addition to my session at the recent IA Summit workshop on structured data (PDF), microformats presentations continue to come thick and fast.
On the same day, Tantek Çelik presented at his alma mater, Stanford, on microformats. His slides, as always licensed under a creative commons license are online now.
On the other side of the world, […]
Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics
Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies
Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics (this article)
Fundamental to any science or engineering discipline [is] a common vocabulary for expressing its concepts, and a language for relating them together
Brad Appleton
The World Wide Web is a simple thing really. It is, at the bottom, HTTP and […]
Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics
Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies (this article)
Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics
The aim of these articles is to delve more deeply into than nature of “real world” HTML semantics - to investigate where the semantics of HTML comes from, and in future may come from, and categorize the different […]
Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics
Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies
Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics
This is the first in a series of articles which aims to survey the issue of semantics in current web design and development (for the HTML based web, not the “Semantic Web”). The goals are to further understand the way […]
I’ve been working on some things to do with semantics on the web, in particular in relation to HTML. As part of this, I’ve put together a list of all the elements and attributes of HTML that I consider have strong semantics ass ociated with them. I’d be interested in people’s thoughts - any missing? […]
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