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Fully agree with your criticism of "semantic HTML" though many frontend developers would (bogusly, IMO) assign HTML the role of "structure" rather than presenta
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
Fully agree with your criticism of "semantic HTML" though many frontend developers would (bogusly, IMO) assign HTML the role of "structure" rather than presentation which they believe CSS is for. But still, in practice, what's left of SemWeb (on the web) is used for marking up HTML for search engines, in the form of meta-tags, Open Graph annotations, location data, RDFa, microformats, etc. The question is, should they, when Google will preview their data in search results such that they don't get clicks? Which is exactly the problem with semantic technologies on the web.
- kstenerud 6y agoThe "semantic web" in terms of how it's been applied to HTML is effectively DOA. The real power of semantic data (which hasn't been realized yet) is in letting computer intelligences communicate in an understandable fashion. Linking databases and data sources globally has been the wet dream of distributed systems advocates for decades, but we've had neither the power nor the use cases for such things. However, once big data AI gets hungry enough, you can bet that everyone will jump headlong into the new data mining frenzy that's coming once someone writes the first successful "data connector & broker" service (much like what Lycos and Altavista did for web search).