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: Web Dev
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 [...]
Working for the government
August 21, 2011 – 3:59 pm
My soon-to-be-colleague, Gareth, reminded me via props that I haven’t mentioned that I’m switching jobs. From Monday, I’m going to work for the government! Having been impressed with alphagov earlier this year, I was more than happy to get onboard when the offer came up to work on the next phase of the project with [...]
