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 [...]
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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, [...]
HTML5 Microdata – Over-cooked?
May 24, 2009 – 12:15 pm
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 [...]
