I’m currently at Web Directions North 2009. Unfortunately I’m writing this on my iPhone, so this will be short to prevent me from going insane. Here’s my thoughts so far:

1. RDFa – Yes, the syntax is complicated at first. But the next phase of the web is symantic, and microformats, though convenient, are only a stopgap issue, and RDFa will be a powerful way to express relationships for computers.

What really irks me is that HTML5 won’t support RDFa because Ian Hickson opposes them, and he functions as the sole gatekeeper to the standard. This annoys me on a number of levels: why is a web standard that will effect billions of future sites being controlled ulimately by one person; and why would someone seriously think the leading semantics format we have not be needed for a web that is clearly and rapidly heading towards a Semantic Web?

I’ll rant more on that in the future.

2. Accessibility – there’s a lot of things that I’ve been doing right for accessibility, but Derek Featherstone pointed out a lot of potential pitfalls with AJAX that I need to start payingca lot of attention to.

Ok, the writing on my phone is driving mad, so I’m going to sign off now. More later!