The Future of Internet Communication
Activity
Semantic web – I have read the micofomats and RDFa from the web before, and from the websites, http://microformats.org/about. Personally I don’t think this is a ‘new web’ but certainly the improvement from the current website search. It stated on the website ‘Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards’ – so computer undertands what I am looking for and does all the work for me… by setup and enbed the tags on to the markup XHTML in ways that give the content some meaning. Tantek talks (http://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/12/microformats.html) with enthusiasm about the philosophy of microformats:
- Keep the formats simple. It’s worth repeating because this is the whole point of microformats: they must be easy to learn and use. As Kragen noted, using an XHTML dialect offers escaping and presentation control, making it easy to embed such formats in web pages with minimal effort.
- Pave the cowpaths. Only create a new format to serve an existing application.
- Get rough consensus and running code. Implementation in scripting languages such as PHP, Python, and Perl is paramount to adoption.
- Get adoption by “real people”. Only then will semantic X(HT)ML move beyond theoretical discussions.
Watching google wave - all this different blogpages, SNS sites, IM, Emails, and content sharing site, have consolidated in to one browser page. I think its a great idea. I am sure the Web brower will be replacing the standard desktop application in the future.
