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The microformats community has been using the term POSH to further evangelize the concept of Semantic HTML .

According to the microformats wiki , they needed:

a simple short mnemonic term that captures the essence of the concept of semantic html , and is easily verbed (to posh, poshify, poshed up).



A French version of the acronym was also coined, CHIC: Code HTML Intrinsèquement Classe


PURPOSE

The purpose of the term 'POSH' is to:

  • educate HTML authors who want to use microformats, but haven't understood the intermediate step of 'semantic html' markup.

  • encourage use of the term ' Microformats ' only for semantic html patterns which have been through the rigor of the microformats process.



EXTERNAL REFERENCES

  • A talk about POSH in the .Net magazine podcast episode 8 (56 minutes; 26 Mb. Relevant section 30:10-42:40)