Archives for August 2009

Understanding Microdata, now with more understanding

Okay, I’m giving this whole HTML5 microdata a shot for real. 4475 HTML pages of it in fact.
After reading what Hixie wrote, tried creating a new sample. Didn’t feel any stranger then the markup for RDFa. From a typing perspective, it is annoying to have to type the whole URI, from a reading perspective it’s [...]

Trying to understand Microdata? RDFa?

Been trying to follow the RDFa, microdata messwork. This isn’t academic. I have a nice open ticket that says “Insert inline metadata into O’Reilly Catalog pages” which is due in a large release at the end of September.
Do I expect Google to index my page a whole lot better? Nah. (That’s why we’re doing complete [...]