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The Yahoo! Developer Network recently held an event in Paris to introduce SearchMonkey to local developers. I was on hand to help discuss microformats. I’ve got a brief write up of the event on the YDN blog: SearchMonkey in Paris.
SearchMonkey

SearchMonkey allows developers to create enhanced search result presentations for a web site. These appear when [...]

View the finished example: Adding style to your rel link.
There’s a little attribute in HTML links that is starting to get a bit of attention lately. The “rel” attribute is a sparsely defined attribute that applies some meta information about a link’s relationship to other documents. Unfortunately, this information is usually hidden from your users. [...]

The Tails extension for Firefox has been updated. This is great for those working in microformats. It allows you to quickly check your code.
I was having trouble testing some hreview elements today and assumed I had the latest version of Tails. Fortunately, a link on Microformatique suggested visiting the Tails home page to [...]

John Allsopp has an interesting set of articles about semantic markup on Microformatique. This last installment, the future of semantic markup is well worth reading.
Future Semantics
So far we’ve seen that there are three sources of semantics in HTML

The built in semantics of HTML itself – its elements and attributes
The ad hoc semantics of developers inventing [...]

You’ve probably heard of Microformats by now. It’s that vague concept floated amongst the standardistas which promises to solve world hunger and bring peace to the Middle East. You’ve always got something more immediate to do and hope to read about it soon. Heck, you don’t even know how it is [...]