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expand intro, note direct uses, specific useful microformats, and ongoing work to support microformats in FIrefoxOS
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<dfn>[http://microformats.org/wiki/ Microformats]</dfn> are | <dfn>[http://microformats.org/wiki/ Microformats]</dfn> are HTML conventions 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 search engines, web crawlers, and browsers. Web browsers in particular are able to associate the data with particular actions. | ||
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* [[hCard]] - for | * [[adr]] - for structured addresses | ||
* [[hCalendar]] - for | * [[geo]] - for latitude/longitude geolocations | ||
* http://microformats.org/wiki/ | * [[hAtom]] - for blog posts, status updates, and any kind of datestamped content | ||
* [[hCard]] - for people and organizations | |||
* [[hCalendar]] - for events | |||
* [[hReview]] - reviews of places, people, events, products, etc. | |||
* and http://microformats.org/wiki/ for more. | |||
Most recently, microformats support is being developed in '''FirefoxOS ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]])''' to help users by automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces. | |||
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