Hello, > But after all the time the web design community has spent trying to get > us to deal in semantics, rather than presentation, it seems pretty ironic > to me that we see such a pressure to do precisely the opposite... Just a minor note: I think semantics vs presentation is a false dichotomy. That drill was about structure vs presentation.
For those of us who are interested in semantics, the visual editor and its DOM+microdata scheme is really good news! I refer here to the fact that formatting info is mixed with semantic(-like) markup in wikitext. In html for example you could use GRDDL (I haven't ever seen it in application), RDFa, microformats and now microdata. They all can give you a layer for semantic annotations that is separable from the structural information. A heaven for robots collecting semantic info. So semantics is exactly why the current parser/editor plans are so exciting. I know tat they are doing it because of a tendency that the old interface is failing to attract some otherwise capable new editors. But I think there will be a huge collateral profit for the projects dealing with semantics. Best Mihály _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
