What is Microdata?
Microdata is HTML5’s answer to how we should go about embedding machine-readable data in our mark-up.
At a high level, microdata consists of a group of name-value pairs. The groups are called items, and each name-value pair is a property. Items and properties are represented by regular elements.
A simple example looks something like this:
<div [...]
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern.
My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the [...]
Are you a screen reader user, or know someone who is? Want to contribute to making the Beeb a more accessible place?
The BBC is looking for people to let them know what screen reader users hear when they visit the new Programmes pages, which just happen to contain the ever controversial abbreviation design pattern [...]
I mentioned at the start of the year that we were planning to have another “Microformat vEvent” in the first quarter… well, slightly later than planned I’m pleased to announce that we’re good to go and you can now sign up!
The event has been delayed so that we could take part in a new grander [...]
I went to one day* of SemanticCamp this weekend at Imperial College in London. It was really enjoyable and it was great to see so many people show up and take part. Kudos to Tom Morris and Daniel John Lewis for their organisational skills.
Ben Ward and I represented microformats.org and did a presentation-ish [...]
It was the end of 2006 when Drew Mclellan and I threw the last microformat event in London and now it’s almost 2008 and we haven’t had another. Cryin’ shame, I say.
So, we’re going to hold another event. We’re ironing out the details, but the bones of it will be a mostly social [...]
I’m always looking for new and innovative ways to completely waste my time online, so when I met Justin Hall at SxSW this year and heard about some of the cool things he was doing with games and user-surfing patterns, I knew his PMOG would probably be for me as someone who has been addicted [...]
I kept saying to myself that I will eventually get around to writing something about this, but being out of the office for 8 days and the best part of offline for 10 means I’ve just had too much getting in my way.
In short: South by South West was great!
First things first; our [...]