2008/7/29, Greg Schechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > I'm an engineer at YouTube and we would like to add microformats to > our site. I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on the best > way to go about adding microformats to our site. I'm very new to the > idea of microformats, so any suggestions on what we should be putting > into the site would be very helpful.
--- Microformats are about adding more semantic meaning into the mark-up. Before microformats there is POSH (plain-old semantic HTML). POSH does not have any sort of specs for specific formats, but instead champions the use of the basic HTML elements that already exist. Such as using a <p> when you have paragraph text rather than a <div> or other elements. Along with using semantic elements, you can just choose semantic class values to further extend meaning, such as adding a class="favorite" to the favorite button, etc. Having a quick peek under the hood at the youtube HTML, there are lots of possibilities for both POSH and microformats. It would add meaning to the HTML and possibly shave-off a few KB from all the nested <table>s and <div>s If you have any questions, feel free to post them to this discussion list and as a community we can help you move things forward. Thanks, -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
