Webstock Wellington Microformats Workshop

Webstock Wellington Microformats Workshop

Tantek Çelik
Background

The history of markup and Web Standards
1. Web History 1990s
2. 2000-2001
3. 2002-2003
POSH
- Dan Cederholm's Simple Quiz
- Know your markup
  - thead, tbody, scope, summary
  - fieldset, legend, label, optgroup
  - del, ins
  - rel, rev
Elemental microformats
- rel-license
- XFN
- rel-tag
- vote-links
Building blocks
- Class design pattern
- Abbr design pattern
  - datetime
  - accessibility concerns
hCard
- Examples
- Tools
  - Creator
  - bookmarklet
  - X2V
  - Operator
hCalendar
- Examples
- Tools
  - Creator
  - bookmarklet
  - X2V
  - Operator
Compound microformats
- hResume
- hReview
- hAtom
Principles
- - Solve a specific problem
  - Visible data is much better for humans than invisible metadata
  - Reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards
    - vCard: hCard
    - iCalendar: hCalendar
    - Atom: hAtom
- - Start as simple as possible
  - Pave the cow paths
  - Humans first, machines second
  - 80/20
Social Network Portability

hCard + XFN (rel="me")
- Implementations
  - Get Satisfaction
  - Dopplr
- Code
  - Ruby on Rails
  - Python
  - PHP
- Video
  - Plaxo shipped online identity aggregator based on microformats
  - What is your provenance?

The history of markup and Web Standards