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.:
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.:
In addition, some microformat specifications have separate implementation pages:
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.
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
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
- cmSiteNavigation extension for Firefox make use of links marked with a "rel" value, and parses additional link types also.
- This seems to use rel values defined in the HTML 4 spec, not microformats. This is more of a POSH implementation than a microformats implementation.
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
cognition
- Cognition is a Perl framework and script (usable online via CGI, and downloadable for local use) that supports:
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
Delicious Generation
- Delicious Generation supports hCal for the event and hCard for sponsors and people.
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
Drupal
Upcoming module for Drupal
Eventful
- 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
Flickr People
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
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.
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?
Greasemonkey
- Google hCalendar - Adds hCalendar data to Google Calendar.
- Social xFolk - Adds xFolk links to social bookmarking sites del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.
- Monkeyformats - a collection of GreaseMonkey scripts that add actual hCard and hCalendar microformat markup to several international phone directories.
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
Helios Calendar
- Helios Calendar is a commercial PHP script for event publishing that supports hCalendar and hCard.
hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5
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
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
Last.fm
- LinkedIn - LinkedIn includes hCard and XFN on contacts, hResume for public profiles and hReview on service provider recommendations
Live Clipboard
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
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.
Ma.gnolia
- Ma.gnolia has wide support for a variety of microformats including rel-tag, xfolk, hreview, xfn and hcard.
Mash Maker
- Intel Mash Maker supports microformats as of 2007-11-15 (see announcing blog post)
- by Intel
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 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
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
See also movable-type.
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.
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.
Nature Protocols
- Nature Protocols, a forum for scientists to upload and comment on protocols, supports hCard and XOXO.
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
- Version 9.0+ supports Firefox extensions, e.g. Operator:
Nutch
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
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.
Safari Microformats plugin
The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal. This plugin was inspired by the idea and mockup of Jon Hicks.
- Note - the latest version, 3.1, currently only works w/Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)
SPRACI
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.
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
Tomota
- The Tomota allows import, export and conversion from and to hcards.
- by Ralf Engels
Transformr
- Transformr Is a microformats transformation toolkit. Transformr is also available as a webservice
TYPO3
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
- 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.
vCardExplorer
- vCardExplorer for MacOSX - browses local vcards and converts hcards from URLs.
VIREL Microformats Search Engine
- microformats search engine - website friendly crawler. searches for public informations embedded as microformats in web pages.
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.
xfn-spider
- xfn-spider — simple crawler extracting microformats with XSLT (Original article in Russian circa summer 2007) and exporting information to OPML feedlist, tag cloud etc.
- See XFN visualization example at IBM's Many Eyes made using data extracted with xfn-spider
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
Search engines
See search-engines
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.
- As of 2008-02-22, domain is expired. Andy Mabbett 05:12, 22 Feb 2008 (PST)
Other
Some notes on initial thoughts around Guidelines and Strategies for Implementing Microformats