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Microformats Wiki

Please read How to Play before making any edits.

Please read The microformats process before proposing any new microformats.

Introduction

What are microformats? And what can you do with them? See the about page for an overview, and the Introduction to Microformats page for more info. Recent press, presentations, microformats podcasts, and screencasts are also a good place for some background reading/listening. Frequently asked questions are answered in the Microformats FAQ. Want something or want to contribute? Help with things To Do. Want to learn more in person? Check out microformats Microformats events.

One popular definition from our mailing list (see also: Mailing Lists) is "simple conventions for embedding semantics in HTML to enable decentralized development." More precisely, microformats can be defined as:

simple conventions

for embedding semantic markup

for a specific problem domain

in human-readable (X)HTML/XML documents, Atom/RSS feeds, and "plain" XML

that normalize existing content usage patterns

using brief, descriptive class names

often based on existing interoperable standards

to enable decentralized development

of resources, tools, and services

"Or do you just use your browser to browse? That's so 20th century." -- Mark Pilgrim

Specifications

Microformats open standards specifications (see also: Microformats Implementations)

Drafts

Design Patterns

Design patterns give microformat authors a vocabulary for expressing their ideas consistently with what has already been done. If you're tempted to try your hand at writing a microformat read this first!

Exploratory discussions

Research and analysis of real-world Best Practices for Examples Pages, existing formats, and brainstorming to motivate the microformat.

attention
blog description examples
blog info examples
blog post examples, formats, and brainstorming (yielded the hAtom draft)
book examples, formats, and brainstorming
chat examples, formats, and brainstorming
citation effort, examples, formats, brainstorming, and FAQ
comment problem, examples, and formats (Some stuff needs to be extracted from comments-formats)
currency examples and brainstorming new!
directions examples new!
directory inclusion examples, formats. (see also rel-directory)
distributed conversation overview, brainstorming, examples, and formats
forms examples
genealogy examples
hash examples
last modified examples, formats, and brainstorming
hListing proposal, and feedback new!
- Also, listing examples, formats, and brainstorming
location formats. (see also adr and Geo)
media info examples
meeting minutes examples, formats, and brainstorming
metalink examples new!
MFO examples
music examples
photo note examples
recipe examples
rel-product brainstorming
requirements testing overview, and examples
REST examples
resume brainstorming, and formats
review examples, and formats (yielded the hReview draft)
search results example
show brainstorming
showroll brainstorming
table examples
tagspeak examples
transit table examples
uid
widget examples, and brainstorming
wiki formats
work of art overview, examples, formats, and brainstorming new!
XMDP brainstorming (see also xmdp-faq)

Examples

Tools & Test Cases & Additional Research

The first place to look for examples, code, and test cases is in the pages for each individual microformat. There are only a few cross-cutting tools and services that need to process more than one microformat. This section is intended for editors, parsers, validators, test cases, and other information relevant across multiple microformats.

shared work areas

Microformats Buttons new!
demo - a page with links for quickly demonstrating microformats working in practice.
Microformats events new!
To Do
User Interface
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