Twenty years and two days ago, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone @KevinMarks) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation. I wrote a long retrospective last year: https://tantek.com/2023/047/t1/nineteen-years-microformats Since that post nearly a year ago, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats: 1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.) * Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me * Threads: https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me * omg.lol profile links by default: https://home.omg.lol/info/profile-items 2. A proposal to merge h-review into h-entry, since reviews are in practice always entries with a bit more information: * https://github.com/microformats/h-entry/issues/32 3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, and iteration * There was growing practical interest in metaformats, so I updated the spec accordingly * A half dozen implementations shipped: https://indieweb.org/metaformats#IndieWeb_Examples * Active discussion for evolving metaformats to support more real world use-cases: https://github.com/microformats/metaformats/issues Hard to believe it’s been 20 years of iterating and evolving microformats, to #microformats2, growing adoption as #IndieWeb building blocks, distributed verification (those green checkmarks) in #Mastodon and across the #fediverse, and implementing metaformats parsing to standardize parsing various meta tags for link previews into equivalent microformats2. From last year’s activity, it’s clear there’s more use-cases, implementer interest, and community activity than ever. Looking forward to seeing what we can build in 2024. Post Glossary h-entry https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry h-review https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review link-preview https://indieweb.org/link-preview metaformats https://microformats.org/wiki/metaformats microformats https://microformats.org/wiki/ microformats2 https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2 rel-me https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me

Twenty years and two days ago, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone @KevinMarks) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.

I wrote a long retrospective last year: https://tantek.com/2023/047/t1/nineteen-years-microformats

Since that post nearly a year ago, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:

1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.)
* Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
* Threads: https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me
* omg.lol profile links by default: https://home.omg.lol/info/profile-items

2. A proposal to merge h-review into h-entry, since reviews are in practice always entries with a bit more information:
* https://github.com/microformats/h-entry/issues/32

3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, and iteration
* There was growing practical interest in metaformats, so I updated the spec accordingly
* A half dozen implementations shipped: https://indieweb.org/metaformats#IndieWeb_Examples
* Active discussion for evolving metaformats to support more real world use-cases: https://github.com/microformats/metaformats/issues

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years of iterating and evolving microformats, to #microformats2, growing adoption as #IndieWeb building blocks, distributed verification (those green checkmarks) in #Mastodon and across the #fediverse, and implementing metaformats parsing to standardize parsing various meta tags for link previews into equivalent microformats2.

From last year’s activity, it’s clear there’s more use-cases, implementer interest, and community activity than ever. Looking forward to seeing what we can build in 2024.

Post Glossary

h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-review
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
link-preview
https://indieweb.org/link-preview
metaformats
https://microformats.org/wiki/metaformats
microformats
https://microformats.org/wiki/
microformats2
https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
rel-me
https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me