Comments on: Getting microformats working with web services

By: Mike’s Musings » Microformats and Web Services Redux

Mike’s Musings » Microformats and Web Services Redux — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:30:23 +0000

[...] Sriram had an interesting thought in reply to my previous post. He thought about using something similar to OpenSearch where web services can have an XML [...]

By: S. Sriram

S. Sriram — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:29:45 +0000

I’ve been thinking that an openactions.xml format maybe useful here, similar to opensearch.xml. This way sites that want to be microformat consumers could 1. ‘create a post url’ 2. ‘create an openactions.xml’ file. auto-discovery etc. can happen similar to opensearch (i.e. a entry).

This way in addition to reverse engineering what other sites are doing, providing sites a mechanism to integrate with FF/operator easily should go a longways to getting them to give users tools to unlock the value of their microformatted pages.

By: Pfefferle

Pfefferle — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:00:52 +0000

The problem with GET is, that the URL could get very long, so I think a basik webservice with POST would be more efficient…

By: Microformats und Web Services at notizBlog - a private weblog written by Matthias Pfefferle

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:25:25 +0000

[...] der Entwickler des Microformats-Firefox-Plugins Operator, schreibt in seinem Weblog über die Notwendigkeit von Webservices die es ihm ermöglichen Microformats über Operator in die verschiedenen Dienste wie z.B. [...]

By: Pfefferle

Pfefferle — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:13:01 +0000

Yes, that would be a nice Idea. A standard microformats syntax for REST “microREST”… like microJSON for JSON.

By: Dimitri Glazkov

Dimitri Glazkov — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:07:46 +0000

To get to the common ground, it should be fairly straightforward to map VCARD and VCALENDAR to application/x-www-form-urlencoded:

vcard-fn=Bubba&vcard-adr-region=Alabama&etc.

Why hasn’t anyone done this before?