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Microformats in Google Maps

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

It’s little things like this that I have been waiting for.  Microformats are the new orange.  Or is it green?  ;) Wait a second, Microformats are not even ‘new’.  But they are new to Google Maps as of today! Don’t know what Microformats are?  If you’re not a web developer than I can forgive you.  [...]

Microformats for Accesibility

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I just attended Derek‘s Accessibility workshop at Web Directions North and couldn’t help but notice how much the ARIA suite seems like a complete waste of resources. No offense to those involved in ARIA but isn’t a namespace overkill here? The folks over in the Microformats camp have not only been discussing microformats focussed on [...]