implementations

Microformats Implementors And Implementations

This page lists the companies, applications, services, and sample code which support microformats, along with the developers responsible for doing so that have chosen to be listed. This is only a partial list. If you know other companies implementing microformats, please add them and list their services and what specific microformats they support.

Drupal

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

EVDB

• EVDB supports hCalendar for event and hCard for venues

Google

• Google - supports rel-nofollow

Laughing Squid

• The Laughing Squid Calendar events listings support hCalendar.

LiveJournal

• LiveJournal - LiveJournal supports tagging posts with rel-tag.

ODEO

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

Technorati

• Technorati supports and handles both vote-links and rel-nofollow for indicating whether a link should have any/positive/negative weighting towards the destination.
• Technorati Tags index - an index of blog posts tagged with the rel-tag open tagging standard.
• hCard creator - contributed to microformats.org as open source. This 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.
• hCalendar creator - contributed to microformats.org as open source. Similar, but for hCalendar.
• hReview creator - contributed to microformats.org as open source. Similar, but for hReview.
• 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.
• Technorati publishes its own contact information as hCards: About page lists their Media Contact, and their Press page also lists their Press Contact, both as inline hCards.
• developers:
  • Kevin Marks
  • Ryan King
  • Tantek Çelik

Upcoming.org

• Upcoming.org - hCalendar support in events listings and individual events.

other

• rfc2629.xslt now attempts to generate hCard information (RFC2629 is an XML format for authoring RFCs and Internet Drafts, see example document)
• Andy Hume uses the hcard format to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog.
• JSCalendar parses hCalendar and produces a displayable HTML table/CSS-based calendar.
• X2V parses hCard and to produces .vcf (vCard) streams and hCalendar to produce .ics (iCal) streams.

general info

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