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Posted by TimSlavin at March 18, 2004
"It's generally frustrating to evangelize semantic markup, though, because its advantages aren't immediately apparent. Why should people take time to put tags around quotes if Web browsers don't really do anything useful with them? The main point of semantic markup is to make documents easily understood by computers -- but computers don't seem to be doing anything exciting with the markup yet, on a large scale." Then he links to the W3C's semantic data extractor which visually shows what sort of data a computer can extract from your web page. From Holovaty.com and found through Contentious.
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