Comments on: Re: The usefulness of Microformats

By: Nate K

Nate K — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:52:30 +0000

I agree the documentation is a little 'scary' to some, but microformats REALLY are dead simple.

Can't find a use? It's being used by some very popular sites right now and (I believe) will only continue to gain strength. The vCard/hCard setup through technorati makes it very easy – and it doesn't require browsers, higher technology, or plugins. It just requires clicking on a link. Just as Jeremy Keith has pointed out, there are MANY places to implement/use microformats on websites.

To me, this is just another step to more meaningful content (with the added benefit of hooks for JS/CSS). I don't use them on my personal site (yet – until relaunch). I am however using them on 2 projects I am working on right now.

By: Nate K

Nate K — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:30:42 +0000

I agree the documentation is a little ‘scary’ to some, but microformats REALLY are dead simple.

Can’t find a use? It’s being used by some very popular sites right now and (I believe) will only continue to gain strength. The vCard/hCard setup through technorati makes it very easy – and it doesn’t require browsers, higher technology, or plugins. It just requires clicking on a link. Just as Jeremy Keith has pointed out, there are MANY places to implement/use microformats on websites.

To me, this is just another step to more meaningful content (with the added benefit of hooks for JS/CSS). I don’t use them on my personal site (yet – until relaunch). I am however using them on 2 projects I am working on right now.

By: alvin woon

alvin woon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:00:20 +0000

I was wondering whether I should reply to his reply to my initial reply because I don’t agree with his counter points (but then it might just be a matter of me not explaining things well in my initial reply).

But then I followed this trackback and well, enough said!