Microformats

Posted 01/03/2007 by jaimes

Microformats are community developed human readable conventions for embedding semantic information in HTML. Essentially this is a movement to combine human readable formats with machine readability, thus enabling all sorts of relatable goodness, without losing the flexibility that made Web 1.0 such a success.

http://microformats.org/about/

Particular ones I have been looking at are ways of combining RSS and SMIL to get standards based multimedia playback:

http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples

A good, easily readable summary of what this is about is at:

http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/04/07/an-evolutionary-revolution/