If you're into web technologies, one of the words being whispered for a good while now has been Microformats - a fantastic way to place human and machine-readable contact, calendar and other information in webpages.Of course, in order to take advantage of Microformats and perhaps bring the information they offer onto your system, you need a browser that will read them - there's Firefox plugins, and NetNewsWire 3.0's built-in browser reads them. But what about Safari? Thanks to SIMBL, there's a small array of Safari plugins available and from the maker of Safari Tidy comes Safari Microformats. Whenever visiting a site with Microformats, an icon appears in the right of the address bar (not unlike the RSS icon). Clicking it brings up a menu of available hCards and hCalendars you can add to Address Book and iCal.
The Microformats plugin is a free download (with donations) and requires OS X 10.5 Leopard. I had problems installing the plugin due to issues with folder permission. If, like me, you can't get it to show up on sites that do have Microformats within the code, the following terminal command (via the SafariStand website) fixed it:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-28-2007 @ 2:47PM
Bryan Hughes said...
Since this icon appears in the same location as the RSS icon, what happens when you're on a page that contains an RSS feed and a Microformat card/calendar?
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11-28-2007 @ 3:14PM
mingistech said...
Re: Bryan Hughes
Why don't you install it and find out?
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11-28-2007 @ 3:29PM
Nik Fletcher said...
Hi Bryan,
It places the icon to the left of the RSS icon.
Thanks,
Nik
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11-28-2007 @ 5:34PM
Swany said...
Worked fine for me -- OSX 10.5.1, PowerPC G5
No need to run the terminal command
Now I don't need Firefox.
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11-28-2007 @ 6:02PM
Carlos Fonseca said...
SIMBL site is down...
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11-29-2007 @ 10:36AM
blah said...
can anyone tell me a site that uses this so i can test and see if it works?
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11-30-2007 @ 5:00AM
Nik Fletcher said...
blah,
Try the plugin's website :-)
12-04-2007 @ 6:39PM
Michael Jerome said...
TheWebFellas web site is bursting with semantic and microformatted goodness. Have a look at http://www.thewebfellas.com/contact