Microformats are an increasingly common way to embed semantic information in a human-readable web page. By using classes to annotate the markup, you can call out information allowing a web browser or add-on to utilize it. For instance, using the hCard microformat, a human-readable address written in HTML can be downloaded and added into a user’s address book.

I’ve been offering restaurant addresses using microformats in UVFood.com, and more and more sites are providing support for them.

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Lint started life as a C program checker, going beyond the errors and warnings that the regular UNIX C compiler would issue. The idea spread and many other languages have had ‘lint’ programs written for them.

Most web developers need to be able to do at least a little bit of Javascript work, but I’d be willing to bet them few of them really know Javascript particularly well. I certainly don’t… I cobble together bits and pieces of it based on examples.

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