Simon Willison’s Weblog

23rd June 2008 - Link Blog

Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes. “Until these issues are resolved the BBC semantic markup standards have been updated to prevent the use of non-human-readable text in abbreviations.”

Posted 23rd June 2008 at 9:04 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd June 2008.

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