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 [...]
Tag Archives: html5
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 [...]
hgroups and sub-titles
July 22, 2010 – 11:20 pm
I realise that queries or concerns about HTML 5 elements should make their way onto the WHATWG mailing list, but I just wanted to get a few thoughts out on here about what I’ve spent far too long discussing at work recently. It’s perfectly likely that I’ve totally got the wrong end of the proverbial, [...]
