[uf-discuss] Microformats versus Microdata

Fri Jun 8 22:09:16 PDT 2012

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Martin Leese
<martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> It is already clear that Microdata will be well
> supported.  On the other hand, my impression
> of microformats is that the draft standards are
> moribund.  Is this a fair impression?

Good questions!

I did not even realize that there was a microdata format until I read
your e-mail.

I wonder if you could just change your HTML DTD to an HTML5 and go from there?

In other words, change this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

... to this:

<!doctype html>
<html>

>From what I know, most HTML4 strict elements should work just fine
under HTML5. You don't need to worry about changing all the tags to
<section> or <header> (for example)... You could do that later, but in
the meantime you could start working with the microdata formats on
specific elements.

Anyway, just a thought. :)

Great questions!

Cheers,
M