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Revision as of 20:49, 10 April 2007
Microformats Glossary
If you have a term you wish to see defined, please feel free to add it to the list, in alphabetical order (apart from the first entry).
- microformat
- See http://microformats.org/about/.
- @
- in the context of, say, @rel, this is shorthand for attribute, so "the @rel" should be read as "the rel attribute"
- anti design pattern
- ???
- attribute
- ??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)
- autodiscovery
- see discovery
- class
- ???
- compound microformat
- See compound-microformat
- deprecated
- In the process of being phased out (see Deprecation on Wikiepedia)
- design pattern
- ???
- discovery
- ???
- DRY
- Don't Repeat Yourslef
- See DRY
- element
- ??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)
- elemental microformat
- See elemental-microformat
- grandfather(ed)
- Something which is an exception to a rule (or pattern, behaviour, etc.), because it existed before that rule was formulated.
- HTML
- HyperText Mark-up Language
- see HTML on Wkiipedia and XHTML, below
- mark-up
- n. the (X)HTML codes and related classes which, when wrapped around data, turn it into a web page.
- mark up
- v. to apply mark-up.
- mfbot
- mfbot is an IRC bot which logs all edits to this wiki.
- microformat
- See http://microformats.org/about/.
- microformateer
- A person involved with microformats.
- namespace
- ???
- parse
- (verb) To extract data using an explicit format, such as a microformat (see also "scrape").
- picoformat
- A syntax for communicating and executing commands with mobile devices over SMS. See picoformats
- POSH
- Plain Old Semantic (X)HTML
- process
- The recommended procedure for proposing a new microformat. See process
- profile
- ???
- property
- ???
- rel
- a property which signifies the relationship of one page to another, linked, page.
- rev
- as rel, but applying in the reverse direction. Generally deprecated for microformats.
- scrape
- (verb) To extract data without using an explicit format (see also "parse").
- tag
- ???
- tag space
- ???
- uF
- Shorthand for microformat, especially used in e-mail and on IRC. Plural: uFs.
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier: a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. See URIs on Wikipedia
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
- in strict technical usage, it is a subset of URI specific to identifiers who are primarily locators.
- See URLs on Wikipedia
- value
- ??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)
- (X)HTML
- A generic term, meaning "HTML or XHTML".
- XHTML
- HTML reformulated in XML.
- See see XHTML on Wkiipedia or http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ for more information.
- XMDP
- (X)HTML Meta Data Profile
- See XMDP on Wikipedia