Microformat usage in MidCOM

1. Components with Microformat support
2. Providing Microformats in your component
3. Consuming Microformats with a component
4. Consuming Microformats with browser

Microformats are a way to include machine-readable information in XHTML pages. Many MidCOM components support Microformats in their output.

Components with Microformat support

• net.nehmer.blog - News system with hAtom support
• net.nemein.bookmarks - Social bookmark manager, supports xFolk
• net.nemein.calendar - Event calendar supporting hCalendar
• org.openpsa.calendar - Group calendar supporting hCalendar
• org.openpsa.contactwidget - Contact display widget used in components like org.openpsa.contacts and org.openpsa.sales. Supports hCard

Providing Microformats in your component

When writing a new component it is a good idea to check the Microformats Wiki to see if there is an applicable Microformat for that problem domain. If one exists, it is a good idea to utilize the semantics and format from there in component output.

Consuming Microformats with a component

The hKit and org.openpsa.httplib libraries may be used by components to read and import external Microformat content.

Consuming Microformats with browser

Browsers don't yet support Microformats natively. However, there is a Tails Firefox extension that enables finding and utilizing Microformatted information on web pages.

For example, it supports downloading hCard entries a vCards into a desktop address book.