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From: smithj7
Date: Feb 15, 2007 4:10PM

I definately would have been one of the persons raising my hands at your
presentation to indicate that I hadn't heard about microformats. I've
examined a couple of the links and will look at others during the next
couple of days.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Beadle" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] address tag


> On 15/02/07, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I use the address tag on my contact page. However, the default with my
>> websoftware is italics so I changed the style. For me it is just a quick
>> way to format on that page and try to get in the practice of using
>> sematic
>> tagging.
>
> <address> has been around for so long, but is not treated in any
> special way. I'd say it's not especially relevant.
>
>> I thought sematic tagging (e.g. cite, acryonm, abbr) was/is going to be
>> more
>> important in the future. Is it true that sematic tagging is the wave of
>> the future?
>
> It's good to use the elements that we have (including the ones you
> mention) but they're quite limited in scope. If you want some semantic
> goodness here and now, rather than when the capital 'S' and 'W'
> Semantic Web arrives, have a look at Microformats:
> http://microformats.org/ which basically uses existing HTML elements
> and attributes to give content meaning.
>
> I did a presentation on Tuesday about Microformats. The slides are here:
> http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/presentations/microformats/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim
>