A normal conversation in the GovUK (or any office I frequent) today went*: “Can we get some microformats on that page?”, I suggest as I spot a section of our site outputting a boat-load of addresses. “No problem – but what’s this about schema-org?”. “Yeah, yeah.. we can hedge our bets and throw their mark-up [...]
Category Archives: Microformats
Gold-plating the cow paths
October 31, 2011 – 3:11 pm
I was quoted a couple of weeks ago as saying, albeit in private, the following: “HTML fails to be simple if it can’t provide what authors regularly need and end up turning to other encodings” — @phae @slightlylate For context, that was in response to a remark made by a friend that HTML fails if [...]
SXSWi 2011 Microformats panel
August 12, 2010 – 12:53 pm
It is that time of year again: SXSWi panel pimpage! I’ve put together a somewhat vague panel proposal on behalf of microformats.org and I would appreciate it if you could give it a vote. Apparently voting only counts towards a relatively small percentage (30%) of whether or not it will be selected, but with 2346 [...]
