# Progress on the Block Protocol

DevFeed: [Progress on the Block Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/progress-on-the-block-protocol-37534.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/12/19/progress-on-the-block-protocol/>)

Author: Joel Spolsky

Published: 2022-12-19T13:01:40Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Joel Spolsky](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/joel-spolsky.md>)

Topics: [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Semantic Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/semantic-web.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [json-ld](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json-ld.md>), [RDF (Resource Description Framework)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rdf.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [json-ld](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json-ld.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses the slow progress of the Block Protocol and the broader challenge of adding machine-readable structure to human-readable web documents. It explains how HTML and CSS provide limited structure, introduces the Semantic Web goal, and mentions RDF and JSON-LD as formats for adding structured markup.

## Source excerpt

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of... Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"