Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
friends of ED, (Mar 26, 2007)Abstract
Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra to your websites except a little specialized HTML markup. Microformats provide a more formalized technology for adding commonly used semantics (such as contact details, location, and reviews) to today's Web. Unlike XML or the semantic Web, microformats use ubiquitous technologies like HTML and XHTML, existing developer skills, and current web tools, and, perhaps most important, they work in all of today's web browsers. This book is a comprehensive guide to microformats. It explores why, in Bill Gates's words, "We need microformats"; how microformats work; and the kinds of problems microformats help solve. the book covers every current microformat, with complete details of the syntax, semantics, and uses of each, along with real-world examples and a comprehensive survey of the tools available for working with them. the book also features case studies detailing how major web content publishers such as yahoo put microformats to work in their web applications. Written by one of the Web's best-known educators, John Allsopp, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 will help you painlessly get up to speed with this exciting technology. <h3>In this book you'll learn</h3> <ul> <li>How to take best advantage of the built-in semantics of XHTML and HTML</li> <li>How to extend the semantics of HTML using microformats and open up a world of new possibilities with web applications</li> <li>Every aspect of all the common microformats currently in use</li> <li>How microformats help your websites and applications easily integrate with web applications like Google Maps, as well as desktop applications like iCal, outlook, and entourage</li> <li>What innovative publishers and services, big and small, are doing right now with microformats</li> </ul> <h3>Summary of Contents</h3> <ul> <li>PART ONE: INTRODUCING MICROFORMATS <ul> <li>Chapter 1: What Are Microformats?</li> <li>Chapter 2: The State of the Art in Microformats</li></ul></li> <li>PART TWO: USING MICROFORMATS <ul> <li>Chapter 3: Structural and Semantic HTML</li> <li>Chapter 4: Link-Based Microformats: rel-license, rel-tag rel-nofollow, and VoteLinks</li> <li>Chapter 5:Microformat to Describe Relationships Between People: XFN</li> <li>Chapter 6: Location Microformats: geo and adr</li> <li>Chapter 7: Contact Information Microformat: hCard</li> <li>Chapter 8: Event Microformat: hCalendar</li> <li>Chapter 9: Review and Resume Microformats: hReview and hResume</li> <li>Chapter 10: Syndicated Content Microformat: hAtom.</li> </ul> </li> <li>PART THREE: CASE STUDIES <ul> <li>Chapter 11: Case Study: Cork'd</li> <li>Chapter 12: Case Study: Yahoo</li></ul></li> <li>PART FOUR: DEVELOPING MICROFORMATS <ul><li>Chapter 13: The Process of Developing Microformats</li></ul></li> <li>PART FIVE: APPENDIXES <ul><li>Appendix A: Microformat Specification Reference</li> <li>Appendix B: Microformat Design Patterns</li> <li>Appendix C: People, Tools, Services, and Publishers</li></ul></li></ul>
