Microformats for like yer mum

Ahh yes. Microformats. Great little snip-its of mark-up. If you know what they are and how to use them. This one of the things I've been struggling with at work. I want to include them but I also need to make sure that the general public can also utilize them (this is assuming that they also know how to use vCards and iCal). As Francine puts it: “I have to 1)run Firefox as my browser and 2)download a plug-in”. I would suspect that most people don't want to change their browsers nor download a plug-in for something they don't understand.

So whats the solution? I don't think there is an easy one. For things like vCards and the like they could use x2v and the Technorati feeds. But what about hAtom, hResume and hReview?

W3C has a sense of humor after all

I was reading Eric Mayer's blog about the :empty pseudoclass and I had to go see what the W3C had to say about it. I came across the CSS3 Working draft on Selectors. I got to the end of 6.6.5 and noticed something odd: Section 6.6.6 was intentionally left blank. The source of the section is thus:

<h4><a name="content-selectors">6.6.6. Blank</a>
<!-- It's the Return of Appendix H!!! Run away! -->
<p>This section intentionally left blank.</p>
<!-- (used to be :contains()) -->

I don't know what Appendix H is but with a number like 6.6.6. and a comment to run away I'm not sure I want to find out.

Oh yea and I still don't know a good use of :empty is...

(mt) Mediatemple

Last weekend I broke down and got a Media Temple Grid Server. I was going to wait a few months but the night that I went to look at it (for the 5th time) they had a 20% off promo. Who can pass that up? In the end I spent $160 for a year of fanciness. I'm still in the process of moving websites over to it, so don't expect a lot of posts. I'm also considering moving this blog over to WordPress this weekend. We shall see...