Getting Friendly With (X)HTML

Presented at Notacon 1 (2004), Unknown date/time (Unknown duration).

Have you ever wished you could annotate hyperlinks to carry extra information about the thing to which the link is pointing? It turns out that you already can, and the astounding part is that these enhancements leverage long-extant (and long-ignored) features of HTML. The XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is the first such addition to HTML and XHTML, and lets people describe their personal relationship to the maintainer of another site. Following in XFN's footsteps is VoteLinks, a way of "modding" a link's target. Already the prospect of emergent rudimentary trust networks is in the air. Could the Web be turning semantic from the grassroots up? Come find out more about these surprising new additions to the Web and how you can get in on the action.


Presenters:

  • Eric Meyer - meyerweb.com
    Eric A. Meyer has been working with the web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards. He is currently Principal Consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting, focusing on helping clients understand and use open Web standards to cut costs and improve efficiency. When not otherwise busy, Eric is usually bothering his wife Kat in some fashion.

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