i've read about new thing MICROFORMAT on many blog. but didn't understand yet actually what is this ? how we can use this ? What is the benefit of using this now and in future ?
It's hardly new - not in web terms. Microformats are a method of marking-up types of content to be easily lifted or shared with other websites or applications. For instance, the name and address of your company can have certain class names attributed to your HTML elements. These class-names can then be read by a web app, which will allow a site visitor to insert those details directly into your address book with the click of a link. Microformats are not that difficult to apply - in most cases it's just a slight modification of your HTML classes.
how we can use this ?
What is the benefit of using this now and in future ?
but some more question after konwing some
1. so we dont need to style those classes in css . just need to put them in html.
2. is this helps in search engine ranking ?
3. how we can extract data from other already made with microformats sites?
4. is Microformat supported or suggested by W3C ?
http://microformats.org/
(Check out the Tools for quickly creating markup)
Somewhat practical example:
http://css-tricks.com/a-buisness-card-m ... mats-site/
search engine ranks? Probably not.
How can you extract? With stuff like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2240
http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/mi ... okmarklet/
The W3C is actually recommending RDFa:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
Are u using microformat Chris ?
http://www.robertnyman.com/2008/04/28/do-we-really-need-microformats/