What's new in microformats?
January 29, 2007 at 3:45 PM
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Developments in Microformats come pretty thick and fast these days. Michael Kaply has updated his Firefox Extension "Operator" to version 0.62 - download it to see what support structured markup will look like in the next generation of browsers like Firefox 3 Firefox 3's roadmap shows that support for microformats at the user level is very much on their agenda. A different approach to the the same challenge is Andy Mitchell's "Web Cards", where rather than presenting the microformatted information in a page in a toolbar, it is presented in the window itself. Similar to the venerable Tails extension, it present the information in an even more contextual way. Well worth taking a look at. Publishers have been hard at work adopting microformats too - with professional networking site LinkedIn adopting the hResume format for all 9 million (count 'em) member profiles, while Wikimedia has started adopting microformats in their Wikitravel site. Meanwhile the podcast of my microformats presentation at Web Directions South is online now, along with the slides.
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Thx for the update John! When will your book be coming out? :)
To me, the most interesting use of microformats is providing email addresses. I hardly ever use a street address anymore. However, what methods are there to protect email addresses from spammers?
Just a note: Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project.
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