Tuesday, November 23, 2010

InfoQ: Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

InfoQ: Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

Scott Davis reviews some of the most important HTML5 features: new semantic elements - header, footer, nav, section, and article-, form enhancements - placeholder text, autocomplete, autofocus, and validation-, video and mobile support.

Hidden Web Services: Microformats and the Semantic Web

Scott Davis makes a case for metadata or semantic data, pointing out that it is currently used by major websites to improve their traffic or the rank of the pages searched. He is presenting the most common ways to add metadata to a document: RDFa and microformats.