microformat

We'll check each of these out to see how they can handle our microformat example, at least in theory.

The required order microformat is created with a specific transformer detailed in the next section.

You can put a microformat on your website in less than five minutes.

Microformat hCard Specification: Try this simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places.

To be honest, any experienced engineer would look at the hCalendar example above and say, "Where's the format in this microformat? "

Microformat hCalendar Specification: Explore a simple, open, distributed calendaring and events format, based on the iCalendar standard .

container microformat: Defines portlet containers as placeholders for portlets.

navigation microformat: Defines the navigation if your static page is rendered as a stand-alone Web page.

Search engine spiders know from the Web feed link convention (a form of microformat in itself) how to interpret the linked Atom file.

Other microformats that are widely accepted include hCard, a way to embed detailed contact info in a web page.

For drag-and-drop actions, the portlet microformat can provide the source to drag, and the container microformat provides the drop target.

What will be particularly interesting to watch is how microformats, the Web community's open standards for structured data, will fare.

Mofo will then return objects with all of the microformat data easily accessible.

For the drag source, use the attribute from the portlet microformat when defining the portlet.

Most all of the major browsers have already added or announced microformat support of one kind or another.

Using JSON for microformat content represents the data approach.

Therefore, you might need to style them by using their microformat class attribute values, as described previously.

The iWidget descriptor can be written using two different styles: the microformat or the XML syntax.

Instead, support has to be added for each microformat.

Because it is a portlet, the portlet microformat for the overall structure is still valid here.

A good example is XOXO, a microformat for expressing outlines.

Traditional ping services only handle blog or feed updates, so we've set up Pingerati to handle microformat updates on any web page.

It can also be difficult to get a new microformat published through the community process.

A microformat such as rel-license provides a convention for use of an HTML attribute designed to carry such conventions.

Here we see an example of the hReview microformat expressed around a movie review.

What kind of data does a microformat contain?

Location is just one type of microformat.

To read a page encoded with microformat data, you must have a Web page that has events on it.

Your first microformat in 5 minutes or less!

A range of other features that are still in the design stage (microformat detection, inspecting security information, etc. )