What are microformats?
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Leaving aside arguments about whether or not tag clouds are the new mullets (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml), I've been pondering how to make one that is accessible, given the questionable accessibility of most of the ones out there. Tag clouds
Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A
Let's have a look at a very simple example, an average blogroll of a list of friends and colleagues: Brian Suda Our first addition to the HTML to create an hCard is to wrap all the data in a class called"vcard": Brian Suda "vcard"acts like a
Microformats have been getting a fair amount of attention these days. Between the new value class pattern, Google's Rich Snippets and the Associated Press's move to create hNews (though, technically not a microformat), not a day goes by that I don't see a blog post or article about microformats.
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"XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.... XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags,..."
"Introducing Optimus, the microformats transformer. Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P."
Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A
Most of the tag clouds I have marked up have had over 10 variations in size or gradients of popularity/importance. This makes it virtually impossible to find standard elements to mark up these gradients and still give them meaning when styles are not a
Simply, the specification for custom data attributes states that any attribute that starts with "data-" will be treated as a storage area for private data (private in the sense that the end user can't see it - it doesn't affect layout or presentation).
This allows you to write valid HTML markup (passing an HTML 5 validator) while, simultaneously, embedding data within your page
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards...Semantic markup is valuable because it allows us to build smart tools for consuming information...
The so-called "lowercase semantic web" represents a misunderstanding of what's important about the Semantic Web, namely the requirements for a uniform metamodel for data that allows schemata to be extended, and accessible, declarative semantics. Microform
Microformats are small and gentle syntactic touchups for your web pages.They have one major purpose: to make your data readable by both man and machine...The machine-readable-data (and thus the microformat) concept is not new; it has a very recent fo
microformats are, just as importantly, defined by what they are not: not a new language; not infinitely extensible and open-ended; not an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools; not a whole new approach that throw
...microformats are (in Alex's words) "adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable." So what use would microformats be in a web browser? Alex explains that microformats will make the Web Browser
The so-called "lowercase semantic web" represents a misunderstanding of what's important about the Semantic Web, namely the requirements for a uniform metamodel for data that allows schemata to be extended, and accessible, declarative semantics. Microform
Most of the tag clouds I have marked up have had over 10 variations in size or gradients of popularity/importance. This makes it virtually impossible to find standard elements to mark up these gradients and still give them meaning when styles are not a
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards...Semantic markup is valuable because it allows us to build smart tools for consuming information...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web.
R. Khare, and T. Çelik. WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, page 865-866. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2006)
R. Khare, and T. Celik. WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, page 865--866. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2006)