I’ve been using a little CSS trickery to hide content and data from the average user. I hate to mention it too often as it can open pandora’s box. There was a recent thread on the Microformat’s discussion list about this very topic. The gist of many programmers is that data worth sharing is data […]
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Image sprites – flexible and accessible packages
User generated ratings and reviews are an important part of all Yahoo! sites. You can find them on just about every page of Yahoo! Tech. It was important for us to develop a ratings presentation device that was easy to code, accessible, flexible, and as light-weight as possible. Our final design uses a combination of […]
Microformats and Yahoo! Tech
You’ve probably heard of Microformats by now. It’s that vague concept floated amongst the standardistas which promises to solve world hunger and bring peace to the Middle East. You’ve always got something more immediate to do and hope to read about it soon. Heck, you don’t even know how it is actually used as an […]
The hReview format on Yahoo! Tech
Yahoo! Tech launched with basic support for the hReview microformat. Initially, I had no way of testing the output and didn’t realize our limited output. Tails, a Firefox extension, has helped me fine-tune the hReviews. However, Yahoo! Tech still has an outstanding bug with these reviews. Due to the modular construction of this page, I […]