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<dfn>[http://microformats.org/wiki/ Microformats]</dfn> are an HTML conventions standard that express [[hCard|people]], [[hCalendar|events]], [[hReview|reviews]], [[hRecipe|recipes]], [[hAtom|datestamped content]], and other structured data in web pages in a way that makes them easily usable by web browser, search engines, and other web crawlers, and browsers.  Web browsers in particular are able to associate the data with particular actionsand provide a richer user experience for pages marked up with microformats. <div style="float:right;clear:bothright">&nbsp;__TOC__</div>See:* [[adr]] - for structured addresses* [[geo]] - for latitude/longitude geolocations* [[hAtom]] - for blog posts, status updates, and any kind of datestamped content== Common Microformats ==* [[hCard]] - for people and organizations* [[hCalendar]] - for events

* [[hAtom]] - blog posts, status updates, and any kind of episodic content* [[adr]] - structured addresses* [[geo]] - latitude/longitude geolocations* see http://microformats.org/wiki/ for more. == FirefoxOS ==microformats support in '''FirefoxOS ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]])''' will help users by automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces.

Most recently, == Share ==microformats support is being developed in '''FirefoxOS parsing can be used by Firefox to enhance the "Share" ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]]paper airplane)''' to help users by automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfacesbutton.

__TOC__==IntroductionShopping ==microformats such as [[hReview]], [[hProduct]], and [[hListing]] provide an open way for merchants to publish their product information, items for sale, and for Firefox to help the user shop for things.

[http://www.kaply.com/weblog/ Michael Kaply] is working on the microformats implementation in Firefox 3. There is some overlap with the content handling work being done by [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose Dan Mosedal], and [http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/ Alex Faaborg] is working on the user interface. == FirefoxOS Module==See: [[Gaia/System/Microformats]]microformats is implemented in a module in Firefox.