Let's imagine that I want to make an online address book. The easiest way consists of storing the data myself; I will save my addresses in any database and that's it. There is another approach, a little bit more complicated but so much more interesting:
Let's have a look at a very simple example, an average blogroll of a list of friends and colleagues: Brian Suda Our first addition to the HTML to create an hCard is to wrap all the data in a class called"vcard": Brian Suda "vcard"acts like a
"Introducing Optimus, the microformats transformer. Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P."
"XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.... XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags,..."
Machines, with their rigid information processing capabilities, need everything spelled out for them. To be able to do something useful with this title and byline, a machine would need to be able to parse it correctly. It would need to know that the numbe
What are microformats?
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
A Microformat extension for Dreamweaver 8, although should work for MX and above, implements a few simple Insert Bar Objects to help Dreamweaver users to add hCalendar, hCard, rel-license, rel-tag and XFN data to their documents. After installing, you’l