#microformats 2019-06-21

2019-06-21 UTC
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# 07:45 
@SachaGreif Every month I see a new complaint about front-end devs not taking semantic HTML seriously.

I’d bet some of it at least is due to a decade of being told to care about things that ended up not mattering much in the end. Microformats anyone? (twitter.com/_/status/1141975419152998400)
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# 08:30 
@gizmecano ↩️ I've used #microformats in various past projects and, more recently, I've started to deepen my knowledge about #microdata use too, although I find that they aren't always as easy to implement as they seem to be (maybe because they seek to be as exhaustive as possible)... (twitter.com/_/status/1141986632326930432)
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# 11:27 
@joshuatuscan ↩️ man, microformats was such a bust. wasted a whole year adding made up tags to projects thinking it’d enable some future neuro-web to emerge. (twitter.com/_/status/1142031275152347136)
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# 11:34 
@jgmac1106 ↩️ And in fact microformats are still used every day to power the modern social web especially with #IndieWeb building blocks. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/microformats and I 'd rather measure success one domain at a time rather than go for blitzkrieg scaling that created… https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/06/21/and-in-fact-microformats-are-still-used (twitter.com/_/status/1142033024374231041)
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# 15:02 
@jgmac1106 ↩️ i do like the way @oerschema puts RDF directly in HTML but you know I love microformats for #oer metadata.

Main reason actual parsers, consumers, and publishers already exist to make use of metadata (https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1tuxNN) (twitter.com/_/status/1142085255911882752)
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