My company has recently started integrating microformats into its websites. Microformats are for marking up commonly used information-rich HTML content in such a way that semantic meaning can be machine extracted. In other words, you can mark up contact information with the right classes and then wonderful little programs like the firefox extension Tails Export will find that information and allow visitors to export it to programs like Outlook. I see the whole idea having a lot of potential to really change the way we use the web. Find out more on the official microformats site or read a good introduction to microformats here. 17 August 2006

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I had a dabble with microformats and definitely think that full semantic markup would be great. However, I can't help feeling pain that I can't just embed some xml within my xhtml rather than hiding it in a span class. It just feels a bit dirty. 21 August 2006 from Jez Nicholson

lol, yeah, you do end up with a lot of extra markup with does go against the grain a little. 25 August 2006 from Debs

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