A key new movement in the web today. microformats.org says that microformats are not "an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior"[+]. This may be true, but I believe the concept could precipitate a leap of evolution for the web as important as web services, and more important than AJAX.
Intro to microformats
08 July 2006 - Microformats
Microformats are an important - no, very important - new idea on the web. In fact, I think they are so important, they could precipitate a leap of evolution more important than AJAX and as important as XML web services. But first, an introduction.
The focal site for microformats, microformats.org, is not clear at all on what microformats are, but here is my understanding:
Microformats build on the semantic capabilities of the web, using existing standards.
Unless you're fairly technical, that's probably meaningless. So, to explain. <h1>, <h2>, <p>, <ul> - all of these and other HTML tags are designed to tell human readers, web browsers and other HTML readers what sort of information they contain. Not what it looks like - that's what CSS is for - but how that bit of information relates to other bits on the page. Is it a heading, a paragraph or a list of things?
