Woo! Microformats!
14 June 2007 16:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_eggwhiteHuzzah!
I've just implemented the hCard and the hCalendar microformats in a site. Okay, so it's only a prototype, but hey... They'll probably carry over to other things too.
I'm at the stage where I can get the firefox operator add-on to pick them properly, and if I use Technorati's converter tools I can import them into Outlook. If I don't use the converters, well, I can do whatever operator does.
For hCard contacts this means I can download a vCard import it into my address book of choice.
For hCalendar this means I can add it to my google calendar.
Microformats will start springing up more and more, I think. They're supremely cool, easy to implement and incredibly useful when they exist and you have the tools to support them. I expect many, many browsers to support them natively in the near future.
Edit: There's also a bookmarklet here:
http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/microformats_bookmarklet
Make it a bookmark and stick it on a toolbar. Click it and it'll tell you if your current page has any microformat stuff in it.
I've just implemented the hCard and the hCalendar microformats in a site. Okay, so it's only a prototype, but hey... They'll probably carry over to other things too.
I'm at the stage where I can get the firefox operator add-on to pick them properly, and if I use Technorati's converter tools I can import them into Outlook. If I don't use the converters, well, I can do whatever operator does.
For hCard contacts this means I can download a vCard import it into my address book of choice.
For hCalendar this means I can add it to my google calendar.
Microformats will start springing up more and more, I think. They're supremely cool, easy to implement and incredibly useful when they exist and you have the tools to support them. I expect many, many browsers to support them natively in the near future.
Edit: There's also a bookmarklet here:
http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/microformats_bookmarklet
Make it a bookmark and stick it on a toolbar. Click it and it'll tell you if your current page has any microformat stuff in it.
