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Microformats feel like they're ugly retrofitted kludges, where it would have been way more elegant if in among all the crazy helter-skelter competing developmen
by MrVandemar 2y ago
Microformats feel like they're ugly retrofitted kludges, where it would have been way more elegant if in among all the crazy helter-skelter competing development of HTML, someone thought to invent a <person> tag, maybe a <organisation> tag. That would have solved a few problems that <blink> certainly didn't.
- fabianholzer 2y agoThey certainly are retrofitted, but the existing semantic tags are largely abandoned for div soups that are beaten into shape and submission by lavish amounts of JS and a few sprinkles of CSS (and the latter often as CSS-in-JS). For microformats there is at least a little ecosystem already, and the vendor-driven committees don't need to be involved.
- swiftcoder 2y agoI mean, is anything actually stopping one from adding something like those tags today? Web components use custom tags all the time
- MrVandemar 2y agoNothing at all. I believe you don't even need to use web components. You can just throw in <my-person>Joe Bloggs</my-person> and that's valid HTML-whatever. But it's not a standard that is recognised, and so is no kind of metadata format.
- swiftcoder 2y agoNeither were microformats, up until a handful of aggregators started parsing them. We're still kind of stuck in the infancy of semantic markup it seems.