Posts tagged “html”

I propose Cascading Semantic Descriptions (CSD), a new approach to microformats that keeps semantic metadata separate from content, like CSS does for presentation. Current microformats are unweblike, unscalable, and hard to index. CSD aims to fix that while building on microformats' existing work.

I was wrong to dismiss semantic markup along with microformats. Microformats have real problems: poor tooling, awkward HTML class name hijacking, and limited extensibility. But adding meaning to web data is genuinely valuable. In my next post, I'll propose fixes.

Buggy browsers drive me crazy. Netscape and Microsoft spent the 90s in a petty tag-inventing arms race, deliberately breaking compatibility and ignoring the W3C, leaving web developers like me stuck building every damn page twice. Business people are insane. Here endeth the bile.