2016-06-20

Today is the 11th birthday of the launch of microformats.org and this past year has been particularly productive for microformats specifications & implementations.

• See blog post: http://microformats.org/2016/06/22/microformats-org-at-11

News

Add anything notable you know of regarding microformats in the past year below, and I'll curate/assemble into a blog post accordingly!

Tantek 16:20, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

New implementations (publishing or parsing), substantial/notable site deployments, etc.

• microformats2-parsing spec stable with all outstanding microformats2-parsing-issues resolved (some to-be-edited)
  • Switching to GitHub for new issues
• Great progress with new & improved microformats2 parsers!
• microformats2 in the wild grew steadily up to 10,000s+ of sites through IndieWeb adoption and deployments
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Notable Deployments

• Any23 - https://twitter.com/hectorMcSpector/status/645313144676478977

  @microformats #apache #any23 now supports Microformats2. I added this to the wiki http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2#Java … #w00t

• micrometa - https://twitter.com/jkphl/status/725087140581875712

  An update of http://micrometa.jkphl.is itself will follow soon (including support for most recent php-mf2) +@microformats

FAQ

Questions from the past year of @microformats, or new questions (feel free to add, whether simple, complex, or controversial; just be nice :)

• https://twitter.com/mdonahue37/status/594917366229762049

  @microformats It feels like microformats, and semantics in general, are dying. Is anyone else still beating these drums?

• spoiler: https://twitter.com/marcosjsramos/status/661756288481652738 -

  @microformats what about having an option 'isSpoiler' boolean attribute in the #hReview schema? :)

• u-photo img or parent div: https://twitter.com/moymadethis/status/673842678325448704

  @microformats if I have a photo (u-photo), does the class need to be on the img tag or can it be added to parent div. Needed for styling.

• not quite dead yet https://twitter.com/mdonahue37/status/594917366229762049

  @microformats It feels like microformats, and semantics in general, are dying. Is anyone else still beating these drums?

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Testimonials

Do you like microformats (especially microformats2)? Tell us why! (or feel free to cite/quote others' testimonials in the wild (e.g. from their blog, tweets etc.)

• https://twitter.com/schofeld/status/648502325120737281

  …hmm, looks like I should use a separate meta element: https://schema.org/startDate .
  
  Man, Schema is verbose. @microformats FTW!

• https://twitter.com/robsonsobral/status/695243474048847872

  @EllisLab , I still prefer @microformats over microdata

  • https://twitter.com/robsonsobral/status/695260909095276544

    @EllisLab @microformats are easier to write, easier to maintain and the code is so much smaller than microdata.

• https://twitter.com/vlahan/status/742819320372334592

  @JOAKlM I am not a big fan of RDF, semanticweb, or predefined ontologies. We need something lightweight and emergent like the microformats

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Requests

Specific:

• Bootstrap - https://twitter.com/asuh/status/634131649953927169

  @mdo Congrats! Looking forward to iterations. Will you consider supporting @microformats and h-card for your addresses?

In General:

• metaformats, cards, UX. https://twitter.com/scott_anderson/status/642396326307610624

  I'd like a suite of meta formats built on @microformats along with a common card-based UX that spans device types. https://twitter.com/Recode/status/642327718940405760

  Google and Twitter are working on an open source version of "instant articles" http://on.recode.net/1UJCe4L by @pkafka

• an h-resume aggregator. https://twitter.com/davidmead/status/742348628585385985

  That used to exist @karenmcgrane. Forget the name. Built using @microformats hresume. Maybe its time again.

Formats:

• leaderboard: https://twitter.com/tobyberesford/status/652160137767968769 -

  @microformats @t @glennjones can you help? what microformat could I use for a ranked leaderboard? is it XOXO? e.g. http://t.co/Ol7p5TD4Dx</blokquote>

• link rel for I made this: https://twitter.com/ACJ/status/725328078059278336

  I wish there was a link rel[ation] in the @htmlstandard for “I created the content of the following URL.” @WHATWG @w3c @microformats

Tweets and wishes

• https://twitter.com/microformats/status/744929356678463488 (and replies)
• https://twitter.com/t/status/744953438639788032 (and replies)
• https://twitter.com/neoascetic/status/744938836858441728
• http://julieannenoying.com/2016/06/20/happy-birthday-microformats/

  @microformats @t <3 ! <img style="max-width:100%" src="" alt="ERMERGERD!!! (excited girl holding a large microformats logo) HERPER BERTHDER!!!"/>

Other

Anything else notable from the past year of microformats that didn't fit into the above

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