About Microformats

Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages. Because microformats are built upon existing and widely adopted web standards they allow information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to be automatically processed by software.

Several browser extensions provide the ability to detect microformats within an HTML document and export them into formats compatible with contact management and calendar utilities, such as Microsoft Outlook.

You must have the Microformat browser plug-in installed in your browser to see the Microformat data.

Browser Plug-ins:

• FireFox: Operator - Operator leverages Microformats and other semantic data that are already available on many web pages to provide new ways to interact with web services.
• FireFox: Tails - An extension for Showing and Exporting Microformats.
• Safari - The plug-in notifies the user if a website has published Microformats available and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer - Several sources report that Microsoft will add microformats support to the next version of their internet browser, IE8.

Microformat Documentation:
http://microformats.org/

Last Modified: April 6, 2009

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