Search Engine Land.com:
Yelp…is…essentially a poster-child for semantic markup. This spring, Google’s introduction of rich snippets has allowed Yelp’s listings in the SERPs to stand out more, attracting consumers to click more due to the “bling” decorating the listings in the form of the star ratings.
There are now some very good reasons why sites with ratings [...]

Posted October 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: microformats, semantic markup, semantic web, web development. Be the first one.

WordPress 2.0 introduced some sophisticated HTML inspecting and de-linting courtesy of kses.
kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks.
It’s a good addition, [...]

Posted May 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: class names, code, fix, hack, kses, semantic markup, strip tags, wordpress. 6 Comments.

does anybody know a way make a reverse-ordered — think countdown — ordered list without resorting to non-semantic (though ingenious) css tricks?
ordered list, lists, html, semantic markup

Posted September 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Dispatches. Tags: html, lists, ordered list, semantic markup. One Comment.