With the final version of Firefox 3 due out next week, you might be wondering… what happened to the promise of built-in Microformats support? Unfortunately, there was never a consensus on how they should be exposed in the UI, so they didn’t get added. Not a total loss though, as they did add a microformats [...]
Okay, hopefully you now have a general understanding of what Microformats are. (Hint: If you don’t follow that last link) Now, what can you do with them? I’m going to walk thru a real-world example, and we’ll discuss the tools you’ll need to do so. In this tutorial/example, you are a Denver Nuggets NBA fan, [...]
Thanks to the public discussion of the next major release of Firefox, currently planned for 3rd or 4th quarter of 2007, it looks like Microformats will take a major leap forward. An article at the Microformatique blog has a nice summary of the planned features. Microformats are an attempt to allow applications to talk to [...]
