glossary
Microformats Glossary
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- 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"
- attribute
- ??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)
- autodiscovery
- see discovery
- class
- ???
- compound microformat
- See compound-microformat
- design pattern
- ???
- discovery
- ???
- DRY
- See DRY
- element
- ??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)
- elemental microformat
- See elemental-microformat
- 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.
- microformateer
- A person involved with microformats.
- parser
- ???
- 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.
- tag
- ???
- 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.)