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Over at SitePoint, the smart and charming Meitar Moscovitz details a few tools and tricks for beefing up your website with microformats.
Meanwhile, the similarly charming and intelligent Elliot Jay Stocks develops a Christmas themed hCard from scratch. Follow along!
Which brings to mind this 24Ways tutorial I wrote a couple of years back.
More and more I […]
At Web Directions and Westciv, we’ve been strongly focussed on the standards based web, and best practices in web design and development for well over ten years. Over that period, we’ve seen the rise of CSS, along with the decline of presentational HTML. We’ve seen knowledge of issues around accessibility grow from next to nothing […]
Two of the rather too many things that get me excited in life are microformats and mountain biking. It’s hard to imagine the two coming together anywhere, but indeed, at Mountain Bike calendar they do.
Right now, each individual event is marked up with hCalendar, so you can add it directly to any number of online […]
Denver based web mapping service MapQuest now features hCard, hCalendar and GEO microformats in MapQuest Local. Read the MapQuest developers blog for more details.
If you really want to know the ins and outs of vCard, then Michael Mahemoff has a detailed look at the format at his excellent “Software as she’s developed” blog. vCard is the underlying schema that hCard relies on for its semantic goodness, and while a deep (or even shallow) understanding of the vCard format […]
Sadly, NetNewsWire, the excellent Mac (and now iPhone) RSS feed reader, which implemented microformats support with version 3 last year, has now removed these for the upcoming 3.2. Well see if they return as microformats become increasingly popular (but I wonder how many folks were putting microformats in their RSS and Atom?)
Ash Searle has a thoughtful, though a little inflammatory, discussion of the issue of embedding data in HTML. Worth a read, though the occasionally overly provocative term is best ignored to get to the substance of the article.
Tom Taylor has a very cool little Google Maps based geo microformats maker. Just drag a pin to create the code.
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.)
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