Populating Google Maps with Microformats revisited
November 16th, 2008
A few month ago I posted about a demo where I used content marked up with Microformats to populate a Google map using Javascript. Well, now I’ve improved that demo somewhat.
Archive for the ‘Microformats’ Category
WebSlices, evolution of RSS?
August 27th, 2008
In the upcoming new version of Internet Explorer 8, which is in public Beta 1 right now, there’s support for a new technique called WebSlices. Is this yet another proprietary feature of Microsoft or is it a really useful evolution of RSS that will be adopted as a web standard? Since it follows the patterns [...]
Marking up contact information with microformats
June 9th, 2008
If you’re building web sites you probably mark up contact information every now and then. Why not do it in a standardized ways so that you are able to quickly mark it up, style it and enhance it with microformats at the same time? The way to do this is by using hCard, a microformat for marking up contact information.
This article will not only show you why you should do this, but also exactly how!
Using microformats to populate Google Map
May 24th, 2008
Inspired by an article I’ve read on 24-ways I’ve built a demo-page for using content marked up with microformats to populate a Google Map.
Unfortunately the demo is in Swedish, but I think those of you who doesn’t speak Swedish can easily understand it anyway.
The main concept is to use a list of folksong festivals in [...]
