Re:Write HTML Like It's 1999
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:20PM
(#20134484)
Screen readers, distilled/simplified views, other automated parsing.
Things like marking up addresses, phone numbers - as examples - means that a search engine can log a website as associated with a particular address, a browser can link to enable a number displayed to be called direct.
If for example there was a microformat (or other semantic markup) for opening times then SE/social sites could read and display (and update) that info without owners having to go on 20 sites if they change opening times.
Of course it can also help infer which parts of a page are advertising, or impressum, and not render that.
A plugin could offer to work on tables, or import them to a spreadsheet.
Things like marking up addresses, phone numbers - as examples - means that a search engine can log a website as associated with a particular address, a browser can link to enable a number displayed to be called direct.
If for example there was a microformat (or other semantic markup) for opening times then SE/social sites could read and display (and update) that info without owners having to go on 20 sites if they change opening times.
Of course it can also help infer which parts of a page are advertising, or impressum, and not render that.
A plugin could offer to work on tables, or import them to a spreadsheet.
Lots of scope for advanced automations.