Oh my gosh. Summer is over and Frank and I missed the Fall Equinox celebration in Santa Cruz. *sigh* Yet Frank persists in wearing his flower face in hopes that he will pass for a snowflake. He has more creativity in his little nose than I do at times in my whole body. I swear.
Which brings me to Microformats. I’m not sure what this is all about yet, but if anyone wants to sum it up for me I would be extremely grateful. All I know is that it’s not a new language and that it’s supposedly extremely accessible. Fill me in!
Frank is visiting from Webshots. Have a great weekend!
abdulqabiz
Microformats add more information/metadata to content so that things are more accessible to machines as well as human.
Some of known examples:-
Think of a web-page that shows details of an event, wouldn’t it be great if Firefox (or your browser) can save the event details (as iCal or other formats) to your machine…
Think of contact information…
Think of all the code/art-work on web available under creative-commons (or any other license) being easily indexed and shown by search-engines…
I believe, it’s technology that allows to a better structuring of information…It’s really important in this age of information overloading….
I am sure, you can find all these use-cases and more better use-cases on microformats wiki…
Coming version of firefox would have support for microformats, current firefox can be extended with Operator (and some other) extensions…
There are millions of pages that already take advantage of microformats… We are not realizing the importance but in coming time we would….
my 2 cents..
-abdul
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Hi Abdul - thanks for the breakdown. Anything that will make my life easier and that works with Firefox is great in my book. Hopefully others will chime in as well so we can all learn more about this new development. Thanks!