While the debate rages over the ABBR design pattern, here’s something a little different. Lustro, A great looking, free Mac OS application for converting your address book entries to hCard (among other things.)
The BBC has long been one of the most innovative large scale adopters of microformats, so it is a little sad to see that they are no longer serving up their programme listings using the hCalendar format. Their concern is around the accessibility of one aspect of the format, the abbr design pattern.
What’s the problem?
In […]
In a similar vein to Optimus, and a number of other microformats parser is Cognition, by Toby Inkster. Congition goes beyond parsing just microformats -
Cognition is a parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. It includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of […]
Want to get up to speed with microformats and RDFa quickly? Then head over to Digital Bazaar, and check out these video casts by Manu Sporny on “practical web semantics”.
While sadly a native UI for microformats didn’t make it into Firefox 3, as was at one stage planned, there is a built in API for grabbing microformatted content from a page. In this Developerworks article, Rob Crowther details how you can use this API in a Firefox extension.
As mentioned a few weeks back, in a couple of weeks I’ll be speaking in Tokyo at a number of events.
I’ll be doing two microformats related presentations, as well as a CSS 3 and experimental CSS presentation.
First up, on June 13, I’ll be speaking at this vent at Mitsue-Links. It’s free, but places are limited, […]
Quite by accident I came across the house of hCards at the Australian newspapers IT section - probably the biggest mainstream IT section in an Australian newspaper.
Now, to see
hAtom for news stories
hCalendar for events
hReview for product reviews
…
But it’s a start.
A short introduction to microformats at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.
Yahoo! has shown significant interest in publishing (as detailed in my book) and now indexing microformatted content (to be discussed in an upcoming post). Here’s hoping they reap the benefits of their investment in them.
Offtopic, but if you have an opinion, please leave a comment.
Skiing holiday - Denver Colorado, or Salt Lake City, Utah?
One constraint is it needs to be a major city, rather than a resort like Aspen - so good/great skiing within an hour by road. Both these locations fit the bill it would seem. So, where […]
Florian Beer has published his thesis on microformats (hey, you know somethings arrived when people write theses on it) as a free downloadable PDF, and via Amazon.
The only drawback for non German speakers is that, well, it’s in German.
Congratulations Florian!
Now, any Universities want to give me a Ph.D for my microformats book?
Thought not […]
My book on Microformats, out now, at Amazon at 33% off
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