I've seen the MF people talk and have heard my own fair share of MF evangelism, yet haven't done anything about it fearing the gains aren't really worth the hassle. Does anyone use this? BTW, from their website: "microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwin...
My boss asked me this yesterday just to gauge my response. Apparently, some of our clients are asking for "Web 3.0" I told him I really didn't know. He said when he's asked around the consensus is that it's microformats, etc. Frankly no one really knew either. (probably get a varied response now to "what is web 2.0?" still) I watche...
I need to store contact information for users. I want to present this data on the page as an hCard and downloadable as a vCard. I'd also like to be able to search the database by phone number, email, etc. What do you think is the best way to store this data? Since users could have multiple addresses, etc complete normalization would be...
I have implemented hAtom microformat on my blog. At least, I think I have, but I can't find any validator (or any software that uses hAtom) in order to determine if I have done this correctly. A Google search for "hatom validator" currently doesn't return anything useful. Does anyone know of a way to confirm that it is implemented cor...
Do you use any of these technologies? Which ones are current and hence sensible to include in a site? Documentation on any seems to be relatively sparse, and usage of any of them limited, as search engines get better, are they even relevant any more? ...
I am working on a calendar application that outputs a list of events in hCalendar format. This includes an element that has a class of "description" which should be used for the event's description. My question is, what markup is allowed in my hCalendar event's description? I found one example on the hCalendar website that showed a desc...
Seems like rel-license only applies to pages not to specific elements... anyone spotted usage for page elements in the wild? ...
Has anyone created HTML microformats for video and video overlays including: Video File Links with timecode (start/end) and screen region Thanks, Michael ...
I have a page that is currently using the datetime microformat to display a timestamp, but I have only been showing the human-readable time for my own time zone: <abbr class="published" title="2009-01-09T09:16:00-05:00"> Friday, January 9, 2009 at 9:16 am (EST)</abbr> What I'd like to do is rewrite the innerHTML for the abbr tag to be...
Hello, I want to suppress the web browser's default tooltip display when a user hovers over certain links and elements. I know it's possible but I don't know how. Can anyone help? The reason for this is to suppress the tooltip for microformatted date-times. The BBC dropped support for hCalendar because the appearane of the machine-read...
Semantic HTML makes it easier for Google to crawl and 'understand' a website but what about microformats? Are microformats any more semantic/crawlable then standard HTML markup? ...
What do you think is the best way to markup a snail mail address? I found some different options such as: <div class="address"> <span class="name">Mr. Bob</span><br/> <span class="street">45654 Bob Ln</span><br/> <span class="city">Imaginery</span>,<span class="state">OH</span><br/> <span class="postalCode">44321</span> </div> I also ...
What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data? My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their data in a certain...
Is the "id" attribute allowed in microformats? Example (hCard microformat): <div class="tel" id="voice"> <span class="type">Voice</span> <span class="value">(206) 555-1234</span> </div> <div class="tel" id="fax"> <span class="type">Fax</span> <span class="value">(206) 555-5678</span> </div> ...
I was wondering if there was yet a Microformat for a business's hours of operation. If not, who do I submit a standard to? ...
I would like to make the author of a page appear in Google Rich Snippets. Is it possible to do that with Microformats? ...
It looks like the hComment microformat wiki entry hasn't been updated in a while. It also looks like hComment and hReview are very similar. There seems to be more interest and activity with hReview. However, the data that I'm representing is clearly a comment, not a review. Should I use hComment (which appears to be a better semantic f...
What do you think is best? RDFa or microformats? In the future what do you think: Will prevail both (using tools like GRRDL to make them "talk") or only one (like what happen with HD-DVD and Blu-ray)? ...
I have already tried Google's microformat testing tool, but it's not clear to me that it works the same way as Googlebot -- it seems reasonable that Googlebot would have more features than a simple web-based testing tool. So, I'm wondering -- does anyone have any real-world experience in successfully getting Googlebot to parse microfor...
I'm about to write my own .ashx handler to receive hCard data and return a properly-formatted VCF file and - when I get around to it - to handle hCalendar events as well. I know the Microsoft Oomph project does something very similar (in fact, I plan to base much of my work off that service). Are there a range of open services availabl...