[WikiEN-l] A proposal to simplify and improve geo markup in Wikipedia

[Håkon Wium Lie]

I've analyzed Wikipedia's HTML code for representing geographical
coordinates. The current code is verbose and does not support the Geo
microformat correctly. Three alternatives, differing on functionality
and code size, are suggested as replacements:

  http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/geo/

Alternative 1, which is comptible with Wikipedia's current syntax for
personalized presentation, reduces the number of elements from 14 to
10. Alternative 2, which uses CSS generated content to achieve
personalized presentations, reduces the number of elments from 14 to 5
and the code size from 798 to 248 bytes. 

Cheers,

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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