XF 1.0 Semantic HTML

From the outset, XenForo has been built with semantic HTML in mind in order to facilitate styling, boost SEO and give a helping hand to screen reading software.

The W3C provides a useful Semantic data extraction tool that allows the efficacy of this approach to be tested.

Take a look at how easily the tool extracts the important content from an example thread here on XenForo.com:

Semantic Data Extraction for 'Multi-page Navigation Enhancement' thread

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Something not quite right? Wait a couple of hours (minutes) and it will have already changed.

I've said it before, but the competition talks about agile development. We're actually seeing it here on xenForo, with 1/5 the staff and no special JIRA or other tools, features are being added, fixes made, and streamlining happening within hours.
 
feldon30 said:
Something not quite right? Wait a couple of hours (minutes) and it will have already changed.

I've said it before, but the competition talks about agile development. We're actually seeing it here on xenForo, with 1/5 the staff and no special JIRA or other tools, features are being added, fixes made, and streamlining happening within hours.
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Not to mention all the spam and nonsense they've probably had to sift through.
 
THIS all by itself is a primary reason that any forum admin that makes real money off of organic traffic should be immediately loading a copy of XF up on their testbed and working out their migration cheat-sheet/walk through ASAP when it's commercially available. There are no words... Just, wow.

Somebody
Got
Semantic
HTML
Right

:) :) :)

Ok. I lied. There are words, but it was hard to stop grinning long enough to type them!

BTW, I tested it in Safari on iOS 4 on my iPhone and it mostly works perfectly. The style chooser popup doesn't function, and the upload dialog (while it's functioning is blocked by file upload paranoia) DOES popup, but the label on the upload file button overlaps. I'm guessing that there will be provision for mobile skins in the nearish future though that will render that feedback meaningless ;).
 

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