Microformats

Introduction

Microformats are a type of semantic HTML that takes data from being machine readable to being machine understandable, allowing Web browsers to associate the data with particular actions.

For background information on microformat detection, please see this series of blog posts by Alex Faaborg:

• Part 0: Introduction
• Part 1: Structured Data Chaos
• Part 2: The Fundamental Types
• Part 3: Introducing Operator
• Part 4: The User Interface of Microformat Detection

User Experience

• Brainstorming page about the user experience of microformat detection, please feel free to contribute any design work, or to comment on these conceptual mockups.

• Information about about the user interface of microformat detection can also be found on the microformats.org wiki

Implementation

Currently no developers at Mozilla are actively working on microformat detection. However Michael Kaply is blogging about his work on the Operator extension.