Comments on: Grokking microformats

By: They’re my people, and I’m taking them with me at Aaron Mentele, Charisma:18

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:04:34 +0000

[...] Alright, let’s slow this down. If you made it past the Good Will Hunting reference, but I lost you at XOXO, that’s okay. A fraction of the online population knows what microformats are. Fewer still know what to do with them. [...]

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:53:13 +0000

Okay, a paragraph tag (

) tells your browser that a block of text is a paragraph and should be handled a certain way. Microformat tags (classes / attribs) do the same thing, but rather than formatting text, they “explain” it.

So, inside a div specified as a vcard (

), microformats would tell the browser that a piece of text is a contact’s name, an organization, a phone number, an email address, etc. They consist of small bits of additional code inside standard html tags.

By: Sereau

Sereau — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:26:23 +0000

I still don’t get it.

By: Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:18:12 +0000

Hey Flo. You were one of the first people I saw mapping out the hAtom process for WordPress – thanks for that by the way – think I linked to your site a while back. Good luck with your thesis.

By: Flo

Flo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:18:40 +0000

At the moment I am only using them on two private blogs of mine but I’ve already planned to implement at least hAtom and hCard on a bigger project I’m about to start soon.
While I maybe a geek officially because I already know them, I also take it a step further as I’m writing my diploma thesis about Microformats at the moment :)