Hey all,
I was wondering how to explain microformats and what it brings to
people that have no knowledge of HTML and what html tags are. Normally
I would explain it as adding semantics or ontologies to your html
tags. But I have to present microformats to a crowd that doesn't have
any knowledge
Aloha folks,
My hResume marked-up resume at
http://jeffmcneill.com/microformats/hresume-jeffmcneill.html is
getting validation errors in Operator because I do not have a
'summary' element for the education and service list items. I am using
the abr class='title' markup to identify titles and an
Pat,
I was wondering how to explain microformats and what it brings to
people that have no knowledge of HTML and what html tags are. Normally
I would explain it as adding semantics or ontologies to your html
tags. But I have to present microformats to a crowd that doesn't have
any knowledge of
That's an awesome video, John!
Which makes me think that we should ask Lee Lefevre really nicely
whether he would put together a 'Microformats In Plain English' video
for the community? Usually he charges big bucks, but he's a community
guy and may recognize the value in this.
For his former
Tara,
That would be awesome. I have made a shy attempt at it
(http://andr3.net/blog/post/104) but my screencasting skills are so
very poor! I will leave it to the pros. It would be awesome to have
something like those examples for microformats. (and non-english
speaking folks) From my own
Thanx a lot for your tips, I forgot to mention I can't use visual
tools for my presentation (yes that sucks) so if you have something
more textual keep it coming :)
I did a little fugly screencast a while ago about microformats here:
http://ascian.fr/screencasts/microformats.ogg
Patrick,
It might not meet the criteria of no html knowledge required, but I like
Roger Costello's series of Microformat tutorials.
See:
http://www.xfront.com/microformats/
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Chuck Allen
Director, HR-XML Consortium, Inc.
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