On 2/2/06, Pid <webmaster@neutralgrey.net> wrote: > > While I'm not yet sure that there's a case for HTML5, it does address > something I've been thinking about for a while. The use of semantically > attributed elements denoting functions "header", "footer", "nav", "menu" > are (already widely accepted to be) in widespread use - the report is > more evidence of that. This is exactly the point I was making when I posted about Google's Web Authoring Statistics on my blog: http://loadaveragezero.com/app/s9y/index.php?/archives/72-Google-Code-Web-Authoring-Statistics.html > If our documents are intended to provide meaning to, or be decipherable > by, both human *and* machine then there is a case for some formalisation > of these functions. Maybe this can be achieved in XHTML through some > form of meta data. > > As XHTML/HTML is (with documents and user-agents) already in widespread > use, some extension mechanism is probably the only way to achieve this. > > Google's own XML Sitemaps already provide a model for describing > sitewide meta data, though it would make slightly more sense if they > were also referenced in HTML meta data, (via the link element?). It > would be relatively simple* to specify and construct a short document > that described the internal document structure of pages in the site. Or perhaps the profile attribute of the <head> element? XMDP is one proposal that uses this technique. -- Douglas Clifton dwclifton@gmail.com http://loadaveragezero.com/ http://loadaveragezero.com/app/s9y/ http://loadaveragezero.com/drx/rss/recentReceived on Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:06:42 GMT
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