microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges”

HÃ¥kon Lie, along with Bert Bos the original developers of CSS, now Chief Tecnhology guy at Opera Software, and a man with strong opinions, unafraid to express them, has just publihed an op-ed in C|Net News on the state of XML based open office formats. I mention it because in passing, HÃ¥kon references microformats, when arging that we should use HTML and CSS as the open document format

It is possible to build a new format on top of the universally understood HTML and CSS. Additional semantics (say, formulas in spreadsheets) can be encoded as attributes, as do microformats, and CSS 3 offers advanced features for printing (e.g., footnotes and header and footers).

These microformat thingies keep popping up in the most interesting places.

[tags]microformats, XML[/tags]