Hello James,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Graham</b> <<a href="mailto:jg307@cam.ac.uk">jg307@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:<br>>> To take a slight detour into the (hopefully not too) abstract, what do<br>>> people think the fundamental point of semantics in HTML is?<br>>><br>><br>> I'd say Machine readability.
<br>><br><br>Sorry to be pedantic but what do you mean "machine readable"? All<br>(conforming) HTML documents are "machine readable" in the sense that<br>they can be parsed by machines, and no machine is capable of
<br>understanding the actual content, so presumably you mean something else.<br></blockquote></div><br>I mean so that a machine can understand what you are saying... what you mean.<br><br>For example... I could write...<br>
<br> And Jane Blow said... you are so cool. To which I said... I know.<br><br>A machine (of today) isn't going to understand this. But I could mark it up with....<br><br> <cite><br> And<br> <address class="vcard"><a rel="friend met" class="url fn" href="
<a href="http://jane.example.com/">http://jane.example.com/</a>">Jane Blow</a></address><br> said... <br> <q cite="<a href="http://jane.example.com/1234.html#xyz">http://jane.example.com/1234.html#xyz
</a>">you are so cool</q>.<br> </cite><br> <cite><br> To which<br> <address class="vcard"><a class="url fn" href="<a href="http://joe.example.com/">
http://joe.example.com/</a>"><abbr title="John Doe">I</addr></a></address><br> said...<br> <q cite="<a href="http://jane.example.com/1234.html#zzz">http://jane.example.com/1234.html#zzz
</a>">I know</q>.<br> </cite><br><br>And a machine would understand that alot better.<br><br>Make sense? (Or should I explain more?... I'm being lazy by asking this... I just don't feel like doing alot of typing right now... but if it needs more explanation let me know.)
<br><br><br>See ya<br><br>-- <br> Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.<br><br> charles @ <a href="http://reptile.ca">reptile.ca</a><br> supercanadian @ <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br><br> developer weblog:
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