The BBC is removing its Microformats support from its programmes page as they are having a number of concerns over hCalendar’s use of the abbreviation design pattern in regard to accessibility. But at the same time they are also looking into RDFa as a future replacement.
Category: Microformats, Semantic Web
Tags: BBC, media, Microformats, rdfa
PodiPodi is a web-based command line interface like Quicksilver (on Mac) or Enso (on Win) for the desktop:
“A special widget which integrates a smart command line interface and a bunch of additional services directly into your website to perform common web-tasks”
PodiPodi offers an alternative UI to your website for power-users. By hitting a shortcut like Ctrl+z you get a jQuery powered command line widget which gives you additional information on the site, a sitemap, Flickr pictures, google search,… Have a play at their playground.
“PodiPodi” doesn’t really roll of the tongue very well though…
An alternative to PodiPodi (which requires web developers to integrate this into their site) could be a Firefox extention like Catalog which puts the same powerful command line interface under your fingers, but then for every webpage you visit. Unfortunately active development seem to be stalled.
Both apps show the power of extending your website under the hood, giving your visitors more power on how they navigate and use your website.
Category: Javascript, Microformats, Semantic Web
Tags: cli, command line interface, Javascript, Microformats, web developers, web-tasks
Heya. Long weekend, so what else is a geek to do then to set up another blog?
This is Mark Up As An API, a blog on using… markup (HTML) as an API, and its relevant technologies like microformats, RDF, etc… I’m backposting a couple of articles as I started out collecting links somewhere last year, and did a preso at BarCamp Sydney for a couple of people.
So for now, I’d say subscribe to the feed, and keep an eye out for new post later.
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