So I remember using HTML5 to create a website while in Dr. Bonnici’s LS560 course (Information Technologies), and we included metadata for the site design to make our websites discoverable. However, it has been a day or two or a year… So I jumped at the chance to read Jason Ronallo’s post on Microdata! It was very difficult to get through at first. I actually read it about three times and then went back to my website (and several other websites) and clicked the ‘show page source’ option so that I could actually “see” a little more clearly.
Anyone have any good resources for additional information on microdata? I think I’m going to wander your blogs and see if anyone found an easy way to understand it besides just thinking about it as more specific metadata for websites.
I quite Mark Pilgrim’s introduction to Microdata in his Dive into HTML 5.
Thanks Ed Summers! Excellent resource!
Awesome – thanks for the clarification!
well, you can think of microdata and other semantic mark up as residing in the body of a web page in addition to in the header. For example, the “rel” attribute of the HTML link tag is an example of markup in the body of a webpage
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I am having the same problem as you in understanding this whole article. I don’t think our LS560 course went into such detail for someone like me to understand most of the language in that article – I’m going to try reading it again!
The search engine companies want everyone to use the exact same semantic metatags, so they published schema.org, and the decided to punish those folks who didn’t follow schema.org with lower search result placement…