> Perhaps I'm being dumb here, but I've looked at Microformats (briefly) > and I can't see the advantage over what any decent webby would knock up > on his own. The hcard example makes every line a div and just seems, > frankly, daft.
> So what's it all about? What microformats do is create a common syntax for representing information. This allows software which reads your HTML (Google spiders, Firefox plugins, etc.) to know for certain what is the contact information on the page. If every designer created their own syntax, you couldn't build a Firefox plugin to make a clickable "add to contacts" type of plugin for example. Microformats are a step in the direction of the semantic web. Regards, Kepler Gelotte ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
