(This document is part of an effort to flesh out use cases for microdata inclusion in HTML5. See the original use case document, and the background material document as well as the email correspondence that best describes this process.) ————– USE CASE: Allow authors to annotate their documents to highlight the key parts, e.g. as when a student highlights […]
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The standards organization for all things web
As you may have noticed and will continue to notice, my sites are changing. Sometimes not for the better, as I try something out and it doesn’t work. All of this effort is for my new book, which will include coverage of web page markup, in addition to other technologies, though the book will end […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was thinking about taking a shot at writing my own use case or use cases for RDFa in HTML5 until I spotted the recent entry at Last Week in HTML. The site posts an excerpt from an IRC discussion related to the ongoing exchange about RDFa and HTML5. * […]
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The semantic web gots badges
Congratulations to the W3C for finally reclaiming the semantic web back from the drug industry. Seriously, the new logos are a good idea, and they’re quite attractive. The only thing that gave me pause about the logos are the terms of use: When used on the Web, the logo must be an active link to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The logo […]
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The whole thing
The Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition was just issued as a W3C recommendation. I love that title — it reminds me of Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”, volume one. Interesting bit about URIs in the document. To address the ‘resource as something on the web’ as compared to ‘resource as something that can […]