On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Dougal Campbell wrote:
Okay, so I started a new job recently.
The web site and service has a lot to do with SEO. But despite
that, the
HTML is a mess of table-based layout and tag soup. I'm hoping I can
change that in time, but it won't happen quickly. But one of the main
reasons that I think it's possible to change it is because I think
that
the interest in microformats, and the related boost in search indexing
from Technorati and friends, will appeal to my boss. And from there, I
have a stepping stone to the benefits of POSH in a more general sense.
So I guess my question is, if I manage to shove some microformats
(rel-tag, hCard and hReview come to mind) into the middle of our
ugly-as-sin markup, are we going to get raked across the coals? :)
Go for it. It's not guaranteed to work everywhere, since tag soup
parsing isn't well defined and interoperable (we're working on that,
though [1]).
Many tools use tidy or libxml2's html parsing interface, so most will
work pretty well already.
-ryan
1. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing
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