Webzine2005 Sounded Awesome
Monday, September 26th, 2005Web Genius, Justin Watt, had a great time at Webzine2005.
Rather than cooking up your own XML DTD/Schema, the microformats guys are advising using a combination of XHTML (which is XML afterall) and class attributes to create structured data for things like blogrolls (XFN), contact information (hCard), and calendaring (hCalendar).
One of the principles Tantek stressed (at FOO Camp) was that âinvisible metadata deteriorates.â I wonder what my librarian friends would say about that? The benefit of XHTML is that browsers already exist on every platform to display whatever you markup. Using a combination of tags and CSS, create a format the benefits the user first, and the machine second.
