Thanks to some encouragement from Chris Messina of Flock, we have added support for microformats within 30 Boxes. Microformats are “a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.” In our case, we are using xhtml to markup contact and calendar data so that it can be used and transformed by other applications. There is a slick Firefox extension called Tails which lets you detect any microformats present on a web page (including those written by javascript like 30 Boxes HTML Badges.)

If you are curious (we know this is pretty arcane, but trust us, it is a good thing!), you’ll find an hcard link in My Settings > Sharing. Also, within the html code on badges and web page views of your calendar, there are markups for the hcal standard.

Share this post:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.   digg     del.icio.us  

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 at 8:10 pm and is filed under Product News, Cutting Edge. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.