Microformats in Firefox 3?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:57 AM EST

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technology, web, firefox-3, microformats, browser-support

From the article: A number of recent developments relating to Firefox 3 and microformats raise the hope that the next version of many people's favorite browser will support microformats natively. Recently, Alex Faaborg, user experience designer on version 3 wrote a series of articles about structured data and microformats more specifically and how they might be supported in browsers.

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Marilyn L

Short article with links to a series of three on microformats support in upcoming Firefox 3.

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#1 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:58 AM EST

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Soroush

Thanks! I'm just reading the 3 part blog posts to learn more! Every time I read about Microformats, for some reason, I don't see why it's useful, but it's probably me being short sighted!

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2 votes

#2 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:53 PM EST

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Marilyn L

I've had the same response, but I think it's because there are so few ways to use them so far. I've added an hcard to my website, but needed to use an outside app to make it downloadable, and therefore of use to the broad majority of visitors. So, support in the browser could be just the push microformats need to explode onto the scene (and to push acceptance of xhtml).

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#2.1 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:58 PM EST

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Adrian Mansilla

Hi, where is the full article to read.
thanks
Adrian (www.mensajesdeexito.com)

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#3 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:35 PM EST

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Marilyn L

Hi Adrian, push the big green button to go to the story, then follow the links you'll find on that page. If that's not what you mean, please ask again.

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#3.1 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:38 PM EST

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spiffie

Well, I learned my one thing for today. Thanks!

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#4 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:16 PM EST

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Marilyn L

That's great, spiffie. Merry Christmas!

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#4.1 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:39 PM EST

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tigerblade

Microformats are one of those things that fascinate me, yet I've done absolutely nothing with them thus far. They're one of those things where it sounds incredibly useful and "the wave of the future" but at the moment they're practically useless. I know, I know, there's plenty you can do with them, but they're still so new that not many people know what they are or how to use them. I'm working on a total redesign of my website, both the design and the backend, and somewhere in the redesign there will likely be some microformats introduced.

Eventually we'll have programs galore to make use of them... in the meantime they're just fun to play with. Finally we're seeing more of a move to standards-based design and valid XHTML, and away from *gag* table-based sites.
Should be interesting to see where we go from here.

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1 vote

#5 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:49 PM EST

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Marilyn L

I know how you feel. I have a similar feeling about them, like they are just out of reach. I just downloaded the Firefox extension they discuss in the article (Operator, I believe) and it allows you to use microformats today. It might be worth a go, to see how it works with apps that already support microformats, like upcoming.org. That's what I was testing it on. You can select events to import to your Google Calendar, contact info to your address book, etc.

Since microformats only add a set of classes to your XHTML, there's no reason not to add them whenever you can. Then, you're ready, when apps support is better.

I wanted to use them for a calendar of design competition deadlines, but we wound up using Javascript for the calendar, and link back to the original websites, so we let that go for the moment.

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1 vote

#5.1 - Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:49 PM EST

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