Microformats, how are they used?

Hi,

New to Microformats and this list.

I am trying to get my head around Microformats for an art
project I 
have in mind, and am following the "process" and
Poshifying my site.

I have added a few new tags, rel="spouse",
rel="colleague" on my 
WordPress blog I am curious how these get used.  I have
installed 
Operator and Tail Export on Firefox, I can't see anything
show up 
other than on the source file.

With hReview, I have one that is seen by Operator and Tail
View (with 
some errors indicated), yet I wonder why I one would mark up
reviews 
in this way.

I can see some uses

The source file is more human readable with meaning
CSS can be used more effectively
hCard can be imported to Outlook

I am hoping to aggregate some items in a particular way,
first I want 
to learn more and see examples of Microformats put to use.


Warm wishes,

Walter


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Walter Logeman wrote:

> I have added a few new tags, rel="spouse",
rel="colleague" on my
> WordPress blog I am curious how these get used.  I have
installed
> Operator and Tail Export on Firefox, I can't see
anything show up other
> than on the source file.

XFN isn't implemented particularly widely in client-side
tools. Mostly 
because there's a limit to how useful the data is to
browsers. If your 
browser knows that Joe Blogs is colleagues with John
Citizen, then how 
does that help you? What can the browser *do* with that
knowledge?

However XFN is implemented in a few server-side places. For
example, 
certain social networks are able to import lists of friends,
family and 
colleagues from XFN-enabled web pages.

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You picked the right week to answer this question.

The Google Social Graph API [1] provides a method of finding
the graph
of URIs based on XFN relationships. There's basically only
one call,
one that returns graph results. Items get into the graph via
the
normal Google spidering process.

Regards, etc...

[1] http://
code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/

On Feb 6, 2008 4:38 PM, Walter Logeman <walterpsybernet.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New to Microformats and this list.
>
> I am trying to get my head around Microformats for an
art project I
> have in mind, and am following the "process"
and Poshifying my site.
>
> I have added a few new tags, rel="spouse",
rel="colleague" on my
> WordPress blog I am curious how these get used.  I have
installed
> Operator and Tail Export on Firefox, I can't see
anything show up
> other than on the source file.


-- 
David Janes
Founder, BlogMatrix
http://www.blogmatrix.com
http://www.onaswarm.com
http://www.onamine.com
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In message <tqut75-n3k.ln1ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby
A Inkster
<mailtobyinkster.co.uk> writes

>XFN isn't implemented particularly widely in client-side
tools.

How widely is it implemented (in client side tools that is)
would you
say, in comparison to Dublin Core?

I note, for instance that the ' rel="DC.creator" '
in your website:

        <http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/02/06/ie-8-meta-ta
g/>

is recognised by the Dublin Core Viewer extension for
Firefox:

        <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/528>


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