microformats

Webstock 08: The Transforming Web

The carpet has been pulled out from under our feet and the new web is a very different place to what we were used to. On Friday morning at Webstock, eager conference goers were subjected to several...

Closed Social

Antisocial Networking couldn't have popped up at a better time for me, as I was actually sitting here, struggling with nascent suspicions about the nature of the XFN microformat. I've been designing...

E-Government Bar Camp Wrap

It's been a long long time since I've participated in hours and hours of such lively and (mostly) positive discussion. I have to echo Mike's view that Wellington is one of the only places where...

Google Web Authoring Survey

Google have released a bunch of high level statistics from a recent survey (SVG capable browser required), looking at the relative frequency of HTML elements across more than a billion web documents....

By , 26th January 2006 In:

XHTML Design Patterns

The key concept that underlies the modern web is the separation of presentation and structure, and recently, there has been a lot of interest in documenting the synthesis of human friendly and...

By , 3rd October 2005 In:

How Microformats are Different

In response to More Thoughts on How Microformats are Different, I'm starting to wonder if maybe there is room for another proper noun that describes "a specific compound of semantic XHTML units",...

By , 25th September 2005 In:

On Semantic HTML

Having slogged through the trenches on some pretty large scale HTML and CSS builds, I tend to have a somewhat jaundiced view of declarative syntax. There’s only so many hundreds of hours you...

By , 5th August 2005 In:

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