- From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:25:23 -0800
Hello James, On 11/1/06, James Graham <jg307 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > >> To take a slight detour into the (hopefully not too) abstract, what > do > >> people think the fundamental point of semantics in HTML is? > >> > > > > I'd say Machine readability. > > > > Sorry to be pedantic but what do you mean "machine readable"? All > (conforming) HTML documents are "machine readable" in the sense that > they can be parsed by machines, and no machine is capable of > understanding the actual content, so presumably you mean something else. > I mean so that a machine can understand what you are saying... what you mean. For example... I could write... And Jane Blow said... you are so cool. To which I said... I know. A machine (of today) isn't going to understand this. But I could mark it up with.... <cite> And <address class="vcard"><a rel="friend met" class="url fn" href=" http://jane.example.com/">Jane Blow</a></address> said... <q cite="http://jane.example.com/1234.html#xyz">you are so cool</q>. </cite> <cite> To which <address class="vcard"><a class="url fn" href=" http://joe.example.com/"><abbr title="John Doe">I</addr></a></address> said... <q cite="http://jane.example.com/1234.html#zzz">I know</q>. </cite> And a machine would understand that alot better. Make sense? (Or should I explain more?... I'm being lazy by asking this... I just don't feel like doing alot of typing right now... but if it needs more explanation let me know.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061101/c5221444/attachment.htm>
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