implementations

Microformats Implementations

This page lists the applications, plugins, sample code, services, tools that produce or consume microformats. This is only a partial list. If you know other services or tools for or supporting microformats, please add them, link to their implementors, and list what specific microformats they support.

Implementations vs. Examples in the Wild

This page is only for implementations of tools that publish or consume microformats. Companies simply using microformats on their pages/sites belong in the "Examples in the wild" sections of those respective microformats, e.g.:

• hCard Examples in the wild
• hCalendar Examples in the wild
• etc.

Editing This Page

When you find an implementation, first make sure that it is actually an implementation as opposed to just an example in the wild of publishing microformats (see above).

Second, note the name of the tool or service separately from the name of the developer(s) who wrote the tool/service.

Add a third level heading with the name of the tool/service ( === Name of Tool === ) to the Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools section, sorted alphabetically by name of tool/service. Add a top level list item (*) just below the heading with an external link to the tool/service, along with a link to evidence of their support for microformats, and mention (and locally link) each microformat that is supported.

Add a nested list item * by Name of Developer and local to wiki hyperlink the Name of Developer to a fragment identifier in the implementors page, e.g. Apple Computer would be linked like this: [[implementors#Apple_Computer|Apple Computer]]

Check to see if there is an entry for the developer in the list of implementors, if not add them there. Add a link to the developer's home page followed by "has implemented microformats in:".

In the entry for the developer, add a list item * Name of Tool and local to wiki hyperlink the Name of Tool to a fragment identifier in this page, e.g. X2V would be linked like this: [[implementations#X2V|X2V]]

Save the page and make sure that each fragment ID local hyperlink when clicked scrolls you to the right spot (for the developer, and for the tool). Make any fix-up edits as necessary. That's it!

Reporting Bugs

In short, put-it-on-the-wiki. In particular, add bug reports, with URL(s) to a valid demonstrative test case(s) of course, to the listing of an implementation on this page, OR on the specific implementations wiki page (e.g. hcard-implementations). Please describe why you think it is a bug (user interface, cosmetic, violates a spec page, e.g. for problems parsing hCards, reference which part of hcard-parsing the implementation appears to not be following).

If you have a sense of urgency for getting that particular bug fixed in that implementation, you may email microformats-dev with the URL of that implementation on the wiki page, and *summarize* the bug (the full description being on the wiki page instead).

Formats

Most microformat specifications have an "implementations" section, e.g.:

• rel-tag implementations
• vote-link implementations
• XOXO implementations

In addition, some microformat specifications have separate implementation pages:

• hCalendar implementations
• hCard Implementations
• XFN implementations

Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools

This is an alphabetical listing of all applications, plugins (grouped with their app/tool), services and tools that implement microformats, along with the list of microformats that are supported, and the company and/or developers responsible for it.

As a user, the implementations listed below will automatically help you use microformats and help your data portability and interoperability with other apps and services.

Please help complete this list! If you know of additional apps/plugins/services/tools that support microformats, please add them!

Note: this section is only for listing specific implementations. The list of implementors is in the Companies / Developers / Organizations section on the implementors page.

Alphabetically:

.Mac Webmail

• The .Mac Webmail service now supports hcard.
  • by Apple Computer

AlchemyPoint

• AlchemyPoint is a structured web / mashup platform that supports parsing hCard, rel-tag and other microformats.
  • by Orchestr8

Backnetwork

• Backnetwork is a community networking tool for events that supports hCard, hCalendar, and XFN.
  • by Glenn Jones of Madgex.

Blinksale

• Blinksale uses hCard standard throughout for people and companies.

BlogMatrix

• BlogMatrix - user information marked as hCard, tag directories in xfolk/rel-tag, enclosures are marked as rel-enclosure.
  • by David Janes

Blogmarks.net

• Blogmarks.net publish user bookmarks in xfolk/rel-tag.

Bugzilla

• Bugzilla 3.1.1 includes some microformats on show_bug.cgi and a few other places.

cmSiteNavigation

• cmSiteNavigation extension for Firefox make use of links marked with a "rel" value, and parses additional link types also.

Community Server

• Community Server supports tagging posts with rel-tag, implements rel-nofollow on links in comments, and allows users to create link lists using XFN.

Conferenceer

• Built for SXSW 2007, Conferenceer supports hcalendar and hcard.

Citycita

• Citycita supports hCal in all event pages for local social groups.
  • by Rubio Jamin

Cork'd

• Cork'd supports hCard for user profiles, hReview for wine reviews, along with rel-tag for tagging wines as announced in Pairing Wine and Microformats
  • by Dan Cederholm

Delicious Generation

• Delicious Generation supports hCal for the event and hCard for sponsors and people.
  • by Chris Messina

Digg

• Digg supports hCards for profiles and rel-me for identity consolidation (though they currently mix rel-nofollow with rel-me, negating these links).

Dreamweaver

Microformats Extensions

• Dreamweaver Microformats Extensions (download) support authoring hCard, hCalendar, XFN, rel-tag, rel-license as announced by Drew
  • by Drew McLellan

Drupal

Upcoming module for Drupal

• Drupal Upcoming.org syndication module emits hCalendar
  • by Brian Del Vecchio

Eventful

• Eventful supports hCalendar for over 1,000,000 event listings and hCard for venues.

Facebook

• Facebook supports hCard for some public profiles (example needed).
• There is also an hCard application (a plug-in) for Facebook users.
• Note also the microformats group, which Facebook users who support microformats can join.

Ficlets

• Ficlets supports hcard for author data and hatom for stories and lists of stories.
  • Jason Garber and Kevin Lawver for AOL

Firefox

• See firefox-extensions

FunAdvice

• FunAdvice supports using the rel-nofollow tag to prevent users posting content simply for the search engine benefit, to improve teh quality of the advice giving community.

Gravatar Commenters as hCards

• Andy Hume added code to his blogging software to automatically mark-up the names and URLs of commenters on his blog with hCard.
  • by Andy Hume
  • Andy - any chance of open sourcing your code to turn Gravatars into hCards?

Flickr People

• Flickr's profiles on its people pages supports both hCard and XFN.
  • by Cal Henderson
  • example

Flickr Photos

• Flickr's geo tagged photos are marked up with the geo microformat.

Flock Web Browser

• The Flock web browser supports the rel-tag microformat.
  • by Flock

Google Search

• Google Search - supports rel-nofollow
  • by Google

Google Blogger

• Blogger supports hAtom (citation to blog post needed - 2007)
  • by Google

Google Creative Commons Search

• Google Creative Commons Search - supports rel-license
  • by Google

Google Maps

• Google Maps supports hCard (see 2007-06-31 announcement by Google)
• Google maps also allows reviewers and map creators to attach a public profile, which includes hCard and rel="me' XFN markup. See 2007-10-17 announcement. Sample profile: Kevin Marks.
  • by Google
  • Unfortunately, Google Map's implementation is broken. Google are aware; a fix is awaited.
  • Also, there is no hCard nor any XFN rel values on the sample profile itself, it appears to include a frame which then has an hCard and rel="me" to the user's blog.

Greasemonkey

• Google hCalendar - Adds hCalendar data to Google Calendar.
• Social xFolk - Adds xFolk links to social bookmarking sites del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.

hCalendar creator

• hCalendar creator (originally published by Ryan King) is a javascript form for creating hCalendar events.
  • by Ryan King

hCard to Gmail Service

• hCard to gmail is a bookmarklet / service which will convert hCard formatted data to the .CSV file for importing to gmail.
  • by Jamie Knight

hCard creator

• The open source hCard creator (originally published by Tantek) is a very simple, yet illustrative, open source user interface / form / script which creates an hCard in real-time as you type in a set of contact information.
  • by Tantek Çelik

hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5

• hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5 as announced by Drew McLellan. See also hKit on this wiki.

hReview creator

• hReview creator (originally published by Ryan King) is a javascript form for creating hReviews.
  • by Ryan King

iChat buddy list to hCards

• iChat buddy list to hCards - open source AppleScript to automatically convert one's buddy list in the MacOSX iChat AIM client into a valid XHTML 1.0 Strict list of hCards.
  • by Tantek Çelik

Internet Explorer

• See internet-explorer-extensions

JobiJoba

• JobiJoba : moteur de recherche emploi parses and supports hCard and rel-tag for over 40,000 job listings.

JSCalendar

• JSCalendar parses hCalendar and produces a displayable HTML table/CSS-based calendar.

Konqueror

• Konqueror - supports hCard

Last.fm

• Last.fm - Last.fm supports hCalendar

LouderVoice

• Publishes and aggregates hreview content - The LouderVoice site provides a variety of tools to publish hreview to blogs and it also aggregates hreview content from any registered RSS Feed so that users can search/rate/collect distributed reviews.

LinkedIn

• LinkedIn - LinkedIn includes hCard and XFN on contacts, hResume for public profiles and hReview on service provider recommendations

Live Clipboard

• Live Clipboard Technical Introduction
• Live Clipboard Example

LiveJournal

• LiveJournal
  • supports tagging posts with rel-tag
  • supports hCard user profiles and XFN (2007-09-27 release #15).
  • by Six Apart (at the time of implementation)

LJFind

• LJ-Find - LJFind supports tagging posts with rel-tag.

Ma.gnolia

• Ma.gnolia has wide support for a variety of microformats including rel-tag, xfolk, hreview, xfn and hcard.

Maxthon

Maxthon is a browser for Microsoft Windows that uses the Trident rendering engine and provides additional user interface. Maxthon has built and published a plugin for their browser that recognizes microformats in web pages and allows users to take action with them, similar to Operator for Firefox.

• Microformats Button Version 1.0.0 Release Candidate 1
  • Description: "Microformats Button extracts Microformats from websites and allows you to export the data to vCard, vCalendar, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and other sites."

Microformat Base

• Microformat Base
  • by Scott Reynen

Microformat Bookmarklet Overlay

• Microformats Bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox and Camino, supports hCard and hCalendar and allows the user to import individual microformats on the fly.
  • by Remy Sharp

Microformat Parser for Ruby

• Microformat Parser for Ruby
  • by Assaf Arkin

Movable Type

• Movable Type (MT) open source blogging software supports:
  • XFN rel-me "other profiles" UI, and hAtom activity streams (as of MT v4.1 - see announcement and technical details.)
  • by Six Apart

MyMap.yam.com

• support geo microformat in the POI page. example: a book store in Tamsui.

National eXtension Initiative

• eXtension Home - content marked-up with hAtom and events marked-up as hCalendar entries.
  • by James E. Robinson, III

Nature Network Boston

• Nature Network Boston, a social networking community for scientists, supports rel-tag, hCard for user profiles and hCalendar for marking up events across the site.
  • by Nature Publishing Group

Nature Protocols

• Nature Protocols, a forum for scientists to upload and comment on protocols, supports hCard and XOXO.
  • by Nature Publishing Group

NetNewsWire

• NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac. NetNewsWire 3.0 detects, extracts and converts hcard and hcalendar data from feed entries.
  • by NewsGator

Netscape Navigator

• Version 9.0+ supports Firefox extensions, e.g. Operator:
  • Operator unter Navigator 9.0

Nutch

• rel-nofollow support added
• rel-tag support checked in

ODEO

• ODEO noted that they support microformats: rel-tag, rel-enclosure, XFN.

Optimus

• Optimus. Output formats: XML, JSON, JSON-P.

phpMicroformats

• phpMicroformats is a PHP class library that generates microformat entries for hCalendar and hCard. It is released under GPL.

Portable Social Network Profile Parser

• Portable Social Network Profile Parser implements parsing of hCard, XFN, and in particular rel-me for identity-consolidation for social-network-portability.
  • by Glenn Jones of Madgex.

PostNuke

PostNuke is an Application Framework/Content Management Systeme

• hCards4Pagesetter - hCards Publication Type for the PostNuke module "Pagesetter"
• hCalendar4Pagesetter - hCalendar Publication Type for the PostNuke module "Pagesetter"
• hReview4Pagesetter - hReview Publication Type for the PostNuke module "Pagesetter"
• Blogroll - XFN Block/Modul
• nofollow - nofollow Hook

Pownce

• Optimus. Output formats: XML, JSON, JSON-P.

Profiler

• Profiler works as a proxy service adding microformat profiles to documents that appear to contain microformats.

RFC2629.xslt

• rfc2629.xslt now attempts to generate hCard information (RFC2629 in an XML format for authoring RFCs and Internet Drafts, see example document)

Salesforce

• Salesforce supports hCard
  • by Kingsley Joseph

Spanning Salesforce

• Spanning Salesforce supports hCalendar.

Sivitools

Sivitols is a Java library for microformats. Currently only the xFolk RC1 standard is implemented, but additional microformat support is planned. This library is being written and maintained for a tag sharing project undertaken by Video Vertigo.

Annoucement, Docs

SPRACI

• SPRACI - nightlife/events - hCalendar published in events listings, aggregator can read hCalendar

stuckUnstuck

• stuckUnstuck supports hCard and hatom.

Technorati Contacts Feed Service

• Technorati Contacts Feed Service is a deployment of X2V to convert hCards to vCard (.vcf) format.
  • by Technorati

Technorati Events Feed Service

• Technorati Events Feed Service is a deployment of X2V to convert hCalendar events to iCalendar (.ics) format.
  • by Technorati

Technorati Microformats Search

• Technorati Microformats Search. Search for contacts (hCard), events (hCalendar), or reviews (hReview) published on blogs and other web sites.
  • by Ryan King
  • first version (2006 May) by Tantek Çelik, Ryan King, Kevin Marks, Josh Smith

Technorati Search

• Technorati Search supports and handles both vote-links and rel-nofollow for indicating whether a link should have any/positive/negative weighting towards the destination.
  • by Technorati Staff

Technorati Tags

• Technorati Tags pages aggregate blog posts tagged with the rel-tag open tagging standard, in addition to recent tagged photos and links.

Textpattern

Microformats Plugin

• Textpattern Microformats Plugin supports authoring hCard, hCalendar, hReview, XFN, rel-tag, rel-license in the Textpattern CMS/blogging tool
  • by Chris Casciano

Tomota

• The Tomota allows import, export and conversion from and to hcards.
  • by Ralf Engels

TYPO3

• TYPO3, TYPO3 Developer Ressource

tt_address extension

• tt_address - hCard support with the tt_address extension version 2.0.0
  • by Ingo Renner

TIMTAB extension

• TIMTAB - XFN support for blogrolls with the TIMTAB weblog extension for TYPO3
  • by Ingo Renner

Tweeterboard

• Tweeterboard supports [hcard|hCard]], and XFN on profile pages (example).

Twitter

• Twitter supports hAtom, hCard, and XFN.
  • hCards for groups are marked up with "fn" not "fn org". See, for example, microformats on Twitter
  • Improper address mark-up (no child properties; though this may be all that can be achieved, if the user enters a value like "Birmingham, England")
  • Uses class="label" for non-hCard purpose.

ufXtract

• ufXtract implements parsing of microformats such as hCard and XFN.
  • by Glenn Jones of Madgex. See blog post announcement.

Upcoming.org

• Upcoming.org - hCalendar support in events listings and individual events.
  • by Andy Baio, Leonard Lin, Gordon Luk

vCardExplorer

• vCardExplorer for MacOSX - browses local vcards and converts hcards from URLs.

WindowsLiveWriter

• Microsoft's WindowsLiveWriter (WLW) event plugin supports hCalendar.

WordPress

• See wordpress.

X2V

• Brian Suda has created several XSLT files to extract microformats from HTML. From that the X2V webservice/favelet emerged. The XSLT and favelet extracts hCard and to produces .vcf (vCard) files and hCalendar to produce .ics (iCal) files. Also in the labs is a universal XMDP validator and a site-wide search spider that recognizes 'no-follow', 'license' and other microformats so they can be used in a more semantic way when displaying search results.
  • by Brian Suda

XWiki

• XWiki (as of version 10Beta5) publishes the user profiles using hCard, the events in the calendar application using hCalendar, the blog entries using hAtom and homepage links using rel-home.

Yahoo Creative Commons Search

• Yahoo Creative Commons Search - supports rel-license specifically to search for Creative Commons licensed content.

Yahoo Local

• Yahoo local supports hCard, hCalendar, and hReview.

Yahoo Tech

• Yahoo! Tech supports hReview.

Yahoo UK Movies

• Yahoo! UK Movies supports hReview.
  • by Mark Norman Francis

Yedda

• Yedda supports hCard for exposing users information, hAtom for exposing data that is already exposed via feeds (like list of questions and answers) and rel-tag for every tag used to tag questions and users.

Validators

This is an alphabetical listing of tools that have been created to validate implementations, and which formats they support.

Please add to this section if you have a validator/checker, no matter which or how many microformats you test for.

rel-lint

• rel-lint supports validation of rel-tag and XFN
• by Drew McLellan

Companies / Developers / Organizations

See implementors

The following have been moved from the sections above due to problems, stated below:

Web Essentials

• Web Essentials - supports hCard and hCalendar, e.g. in their list of presenters and program schedule.
  • John McKerrell tried to look at the site on 24th October 2006 but could not access the site, server didn't seem to be up.

Other

Some notes on initial thoughts around Guidelines and Strategies for Implementing Microformats