At 8:15 PM +0100 5/18/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 14:48 -0400, tedd wrote:
> I think the next big thing will be an argument over meaning. :-)
I don't mean using id attributes that appear to have meaning, but using
the proper tags to mark up content. That's things like <abbr> and
<acronym> tags for abbreviations and acronyms respectively, tables for
tabular data and lists for list data, quote tags for quotations, etc.
Yes, I agree -- one of my pet peeves is people using alt tags for
tool-tips when that's best served by the title tag.
What you mention does have some merit to it though, as microformats are
an idea to use the class attribute to classify data in certain ways,
like <span class="date"> or <span class="author"> etc, although I'm not
sure how well these work!
That's kind of what I was talking about -- but I'm much more simple.
It seems to me that things like header, navigation, content, and
footer would be pretty standardized. However, in some sites the
header called the banner, footer is called copyright, navigation is
called side-bar, and content is called wrapper or something even less
semantic.
When the simpletons can't agree, then there's not much hope for the
complexetons. :-)
Cheers,
tedd
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