Overview
The first dedicated book available on Microformats
Teaches how to use current and future Microformats, so the book won't go out of date quickly as new Microformats are created
John Allsop is a very well-respected member of the web development community
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introducing Microformats
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Using Microformats
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Case Studies
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Developing Microformats
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About this book
Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra to your websites except a little specialized HTML markup.
Microformats provide a more formalized technology for adding commonly used semantics (such as contact details, location, and reviews) to today's Web. Unlike XML or the semantic Web, microformats use ubiquitous technologies like HTML and XHTML, existing developer skills, and current web tools, and, perhaps most important, they work in all of today's web browsers.
This book is a comprehensive guide to microformats. It explores why—in Bill Gates' words—"We need microformats," how microformats work, and the kinds of problems microformats help solve. The book covers every current microformat, with complete details of the syntax, semantics, and uses of each, along with real-world examples and a comprehensive survey of the tools available for working with them. the book also features case studies detailing how major web content publishers such as yahoo put microformats to work in their web applications.
Written by one of the Web's best-known educators, John Allsopp, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 will help you painlessly get up to speed with this exciting technology.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Provides an introduction that explains what microformats are, and identifies some of the publishers of Web content. … Throughout the book, Allsop provides guidance on how to use CSS in order to present the microformatted information. … Allsop has done an excellent job of introducing the reader to microformats. He explains both how and why the use of microformats is important. I highly recommend that every Web professional becomes familiar with microformats. This is an excellent resource with which to begin." (Will Wallace, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microformats
Book Subtitle: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
Authors: John Allsopp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0195-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: John Allsopp 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-814-6Published: 27 March 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0195-3Published: 29 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 368
Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems