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A bumper round up of microformats from 4th?17th December 2006
- Alex Faaborg of Mozilla Labs has announced availability
of ?Operator?,
a Firefox
extension written by Michael Kaply at IBM (download from
Firefox Add?ons). Operator detects hCard, hCalendar, geo, hReview and
rel-tag and allows you to combine those microformats with desktop
applications and web services such as Google Maps and Yahoo! Calendar. Alex
has also written some accompanying introductions
to microformats and collected comments
in mozilla.apps.dev.firefox.
- Also for Firefox, the popular Tails extension has been updated to
0.3.6.
- Nick Peters has written a Greasemonkey script called Social xFolk to
highlight xFolk microformatted
bookmarks. It appends ?Add to Delicious? and ?Add to Magnolia? buttons in
the page.
- Ted Drake is interested to see if the recipes
microformat brainstorming can move on with a request
for real-world examples and experiments
- With Mars and the Moon getting in the news, Andy Mabbett has redrawn
attention to the Mars
and Luna extensions to Geo.
- Jason Garber asked about rel=”muse”
in XFN, wanting a means to indicate professional respect towards a person,
rather than ?romantic? respect. For clarification, that category of values
in XFN is ?romantic? as-in ?romanticism?, and are not intentionally
restricted to love-interest.
- Off the back this XFN discussion came discussion about a so-called
?XPN? (an ?XHTML Professionals Network? microformat). In response to this,
there’s interest in identifying real-world implementations that could
benefit by publishing professional relationships (think employee/employer,
clients, sub-contractors and so forth). If you are involved with or know of
sites that could harness such distributed professional networking, please
get
in touch on the list.
- Taylor Cowan is looking
for more semantic detail on Q&A
mark-up; going beyond the humble definition list. As usual, real-world
examples are
collected on the wiki and discussion should take place on the
list.
- Following the healthy bloom of new cheat-sheets Brian Suda has updated his Microformats
Cheatsheet PDF.
- Roger L Costello has created a comprehensive hCard presentation
(using S5). Not only does it provide an introduction to using hCard it also
provides detail on use of
class="value" for properties, and
the flexibility enabled by an oft?overlooked feature.
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