Re: HTML-Info design

[Lennart Borgman]

On Dec 26, 2014 12:07 PM, "Steinar Bang" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
>
> > Using the existing HTML output is not the idea I have in mind.
> > The idea is to develop an HTML-based format which has all the data
> > needed to provide all the features of Info.
>
> There is a format/practice/convention called RDFa (Resource Description
> Format in attributes)[1] that can be used to add semantic information to
> HTML pages in a machine readable form.
>
> Perhaps that can be of help? Something that could be used by shr/eww
> when navigating the pages?

Sure it can, but it looks to me like microdata (rather similar to RDFa) is preferred by the search engines now.