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What advantages do/did microformats provide over microdata/schema.org/ld-json?
by nkozyra 7y ago
What advantages do/did microformats provide over microdata/schema.org/ld-json?
- ZenPsycho 7y agopredating them. everything you listed is inspired by/based on microformats
- nkozyra 7y agoI assumed, it seems like a very 2008 solution. That's why I asked what advantages it had to justify retaining support for it for this long. I've been doing web development since the commercial web started and somehow this thing eluded me.
- ZenPsycho 7y agothere should be a mailing list for these things or something. "oembed", "jwt" and "opengraph" are also things that eluded me for a very very long time.
- jamietanna 7y agoOne key thing I've found useful of it is that it attempts to reduce duplication, by marking up existing data with CSS classes that then provide meaning
- epeus 7y agoI did a comparison here a while back: Simpler, more terse, use class rather than extra properties or giant json blobs. http://www.kevinmarks.com/microformatschema.html http://www.kevinmarks.com/microformatschema.html
- bawolff 7y agoMicroformats was based on standard html. That comes with pros and cons. Pros being its very easy to adopt, including in legacy CMS systems that might not support the other fancier stuff. For that matter, it also means web developers already understand it (Especially compared to writing XML RDF documents...) It also allowed mixing the presentation with the format. that meant people only had to maintain one copy of data, so its less likely to get out of sync, and people are less likely to forget to add the data later on. Downside is you're using something not really meant to support the use case of annotating data, so it ends up being a bit hacky. These things also did not come out all at the same time. Future techniques were partially made in response to microformats, just like (I'm assuming a bit here) that microformats were made as a response to SemanticWeb RDF-XML stuff.