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Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 View Larger Image | John Allsopp
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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.
In this book you'll learn
* How to take best advantage of the built-in semantics of XHTML and HTML
* How to extend the semantics of HTML using microformats and open up a world
of new possibilities with web applications
* Every aspect of all the common microformats currently in use
* 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
* What innovative publishers and services, big and small, are doing right now
with microformats
Table of Contents
* PART ONE: INTRODUCING MICROFORMATS
Chapter 1: What Are Microformats?
Chapter 2: The State of the Art in Microformats
* PART TWO: USING MICROFORMATS
Chapter 3: Structural and Semantic HTML
Chapter 4: Link-Based Microformats: rel-license, rel-tag rel-nofollow, and
VoteLinks
Chapter 5:Microformat to Describe Relationships Between People: XFN
Chapter 6: Location Microformats: geo and adr
Chapter 7: Contact Information Microformat: hCard
Chapter 8: Event Microformat: hCalendar
Chapter 9: Review and Resume Microformats: hReview and hResume
Chapter 10: Syndicated Content Microformat: hAtom.
* PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
11: Case Study: Cork'd
12: Case Study: Yahoo
* PART FOUR: DEVELOPING MICROFORMATS
13: The Process of Developing Microformats
* PART FIVE: APPENDIXES
o Appendix A: Microformat Specification Reference
o Appendix B: Microformat Design Patterns
o Appendix C: People, Tools, Services, and Publishers
About the Author
Successful software developer, long standing web development speaker, writer
evangelist and expert, John has spent the last 15 years working with and developing
for the web. As the head developer of the leading cross platform CSS development
tool Style Master, and developer and publisher of renowned training courses
and learning resources on CSS and standards based development, John is widely
recognized as a leader in these fields.
As a presenter and educator, John speaks frequently at conferences around Australia
and the world. His idiosyncratic blog Dog or Higher covers a broad range of
subjects, particularly in technology and innovation, and is widely read and
referenced.
He is also a co-founder of the Web Directions conference series.
John's true claim to fame, and source of some embarrassment is (semi publicly)
coining the term "Web 2.0" some months before O'Reilly. John apologizes
unreservedly for helping to inflict this term on the world.
When not bathed in the glow of various computer screens, John is a volunteer
surf lifesaver at Sydney's famous Bondi Beach, where he lives with his wife
and young daughter, who are the light of his life.
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