Posts tagged “microformats”

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.