Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 (Paperback)

Description

There has never been a better time to develop and use web sites. The data on the web is generally better presented, more accessible, and easier to find than ever before. This is down to more responsible web development using web standards, better support for those standards in browsers, and exciting new advances such as Microformats.

Microformats are a method of defining and describing (X)HTML data so that is easily machine readable as well as human readable, making it more powerful. For example, you could use the hCard Microformat to mark up personal details on your web site, and then use a simple program to create a business card from that data, and transfer it to your e-mail program, address book, or mobile phone.

What's even better is that you don't need anything proprietary or complicated to use Microformats. All you need to do is add extra semantics to your (X)HTML via existing means such as specialized IDs and classes. They are already in use on the web, through sites like Flickr, Upcoming.org, and Yahoo, and software such as WordPress and Text Pattern.

In this book, noted web developer and long time WaSP member John Allsop teaches all you need to know about the technology: what Microformats are currently available and how to use them; the general principles of how they work, so you'll be able to understand and use future Microformat; how to use Microformats with web sites and software that already support them; and how to create your own. The focus is kept on practical examples as much as possible throughout.

The end of the book features a chapter full of anecdotes from many professional web designers and developers already using Microformats in their work today—what worked, what didn't, things to watch for—so you can learn from their experiences.

描述

現在是開發和使用網站的最佳時機。網絡上的數據通常呈現得更好，更易於訪問，比以往任何時候都更容易找到。這歸功於更負責任的網站開發，使用網絡標準，瀏覽器對這些標準的更好支持，以及令人興奮的新進展，如微格式。

微格式是一種定義和描述(X)HTML數據的方法，使其易於機器讀取，同時也易於人類閱讀，使其更強大。例如，您可以使用hCard微格式在您的網站上標記個人詳細信息，然後使用簡單的程序從該數據創建名片，並將其轉移到您的電子郵件程序、通訊錄或手機上。

更好的是，您不需要任何專有或複雜的東西來使用微格式。您只需要通過現有的方式（如專用的ID和類）為您的(X)HTML添加額外的語義。它們已經在網絡上使用，通過像Flickr、Upcoming.org和Yahoo這樣的網站，以及像WordPress和Text Pattern這樣的軟件。

在這本書中，著名的網站開發人員和長期的WaSP成員John Allsop教授您關於這項技術的一切：目前可用的微格式以及如何使用它們；它們的工作原理的一般原則，這樣您就能理解和使用未來的微格式；如何在已經支持它們的網站和軟件中使用微格式；以及如何創建您自己的微格式。整本書都盡可能地以實際示例為重點。

書的結尾有一章充滿了許多專業網站設計師和開發人員的軼事，他們已經在他們的工作中使用微格式-什麼有效，什麼無效，需要注意的事項-這樣您就可以從他們的經驗中學習。