The following is a proposed standard for bringing more semanticity to articles on the Web. In our efforts to provide quality content without the superfluous leavings, we’ve seen that the Web is a pretty messy place. We hope that by providing some simple guidelines we can help publishers make their content a little more presentable with Readability while also making the Web a bit more semantic.

Drag and drop in HTML 5 can operate across sites in different domains; so you can drag from one site and drop onto another. Also, the data transfer object that you move in a drag and drop operation can store multiple data values.

Activate The Death Ray is a Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.

This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.

Introducing Optimus, the microformats transformer. Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats.