Use the new microformats API in your Firefox 3.0 Extensions (developerWorks)

[Posted June 4, 2008 by jake]

IBM's developerWorks has an introduction to using the microformats API in Firefox 3. Microformats are a way to attach semantics to information displayed on a web page, for example addresses or calendar information, that can be processed more easily by programs. "The upcoming Firefox 3.0 release has built-in support for microformats in the form of an API that you can access from a Firefox extension. In this tip, you follow a simple example of how to use this API from within your extension code. You take a skeleton Hello World extension and give it the ability to store an hCard from any Web page and then use that stored hCard to populate a Web form."