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Ask HN: Microformats - Still useful?
What happened to microformats? I was looking for a standard set of database models to use for contact info, addresses, etc… and I ran across them again.
http://microformats.org/
Their website is still there but it looks pretty quiet: Maybe a news blurb every few months or so. A few of the OSS projects I see implementing them are quiet since right around 2008-2009 as well.
I used to hear about them from time to time. I think there was some chatter that Google Chrome would be detecting them and parsing them out of web pages. It always seemed like a decent idea that maybe missed its chance. Has anyone here put them into their site lately? Anyone have any insight into what happened?
- arebop 16y agoSee also http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#microdata http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
- byoung2 16y agoGoogle seems to be using them in search results, particularly with local results (to show location info and ratings). Here is a good intro to microdata and microformats: http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html
- kakaylor 16y agoGoogle will also detect hAtom for syndicated content: http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
- infinity 16y agoGoogle has some informations on microformats for webmasters, it seems that microformats, microdata and RDFa are used to generate extra information displayed on search result pages: - About microformats http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146897 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en... - Rich snippets and structured markup http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=21997 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=...
- Samuel_Michon 16y agoMark Pilgrim wrote a good summary of all the options out there right now, and Google's level of support for each of them: http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html