Friday, April 20th, 2007
Category: Examples
, JavaScript, Unobtrusive JS
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>Over on my
personal blog I discussed
Unobtrusive JavaScript, Microformats, and the Google AJAX Feed API.
The posting discusses an example that creates a Feed Billboard using the Google AJAX Feed API released the other day.
Here is the outcome:
The fun part was creating a microformat that would degrade nicely:
HTML:
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<ul class="feedbillboard access:randomly">
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<li><a href="http://code.google.com/">Google Code
</a> (
<a href="http://code.google.com/feeds/updates.xml">RSS
</a>)
</li>
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<li><a href="http://ajaxian.com/">Ajaxian
</a> (
<a href="http://ajaxian.com/feed">RSS
</a>)
</li>
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<li><a href="http://almaer.com/blog">techno.blog(Dion)
</a> (
<a href="http://almaer.com/blog/index.xml">RSS
</a>)
</li>
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</ul>
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I have gone into more detail over there.
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When i click a link, the page content is loaded inside the feed’s iframe.
This isn’t a microformat.
Nick’s right. Microformats have been through the microformat process, the name isn’t trademarked or anything but still.
Maybe you could call it a tinyformat?
Microformats are the trend of the next web generation. I think that every one should have his own hcard and hcalendar. With Microsoft and Firefox 3 intent to implement microformats into their browser, it should surely make a revolution in the coming years.
So, everyone grab your hcard now, breofre it’s too late…