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I've seen the MF people talk and have heard my own fair share of MF evangelism, yet haven't done anything about it fearing the gains aren't really worth the hassle. Does anyone use this?
BTW, from their website:
"microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging)."
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I think almost anything you'd like to put into a microformat you could make something with a "full" format. hCard.. you could just make a simple vCard file. hCalendar? Make an icalendar file you update and link to it. The advantage to NOT using microformats is that you can use almost any application that supports calendar/contact etc information and point them at the "full" format instead of the microformat, which requires consumer applications to add more functionality.
To me, that's just the state of things now. I have no technical reason to not use them. I just think that if you just make the "full" format, applications consuming this information are more likely to support/handle it. Though the rel="me" stuff is extra information that you don't get from other things. I'd say use those since they're easy, and adds information that no other format/standard really does (that I know of).
< br > via < a class="StackLink" href=" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5526/" >Anyone out there implement(ing) microformats? is this useful?< /a>
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