‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Din Neville has been working hard this week, updating the Russian translation of the wiki. Thank you, Din. datetime-design-pattern contains documentation and discussion of alternative patterns to represent dates and times. The parsers page has [...] Full story...
One month later, I wanted to share some observations about microformatsDevCamp and my thoughts about why it was so successful.
At our recent 4th birthday party, we started planning the first microformatsDevCamp — and we’re glad to report that it’s come together quite nicely!
Developers, designers, and all sorts of other microfolk are welcome to pitch in during this coming weekend, July 25-26, at one extremely cool venue: Automattic HQ, off of Pier 38 on the Embarcadero in San [.
The recent microformats momentum from the introduction of the value-class-pattern and Google & Yelp’s support continues with the launch of Yahoo Placemakerâ„¢, an update to Optimus, the open source microformats validator, and a browser button that makes it easy to one-click validate your microformats.
It's a big week for microformats as Google launch ‘Rich Snippets’ into their main search engine. Regular users are starting to see great benefits of published structured data.
The value-class-pattern solves two of the three most challenging issues that microformats have encountered in their entire history: accessibility and localization.
Thank you to everyone for being patient whilst I ran the MediaWiki upgrade this evening. It took a little longer than hoped thanks to very slow database migration scripts, but the microformats wiki is now live again, and back to full read-write access.
Updated: 16th November, 18:39 (GMT-8).
As announced on the -discuss mailing list earlier this week, the microformats wiki is due a big upgrade.
This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web.
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web.