Go2SA full of Microformat goodness

I’m a big fan of microformats and their potential. Its “early days” still as far as adoption of it goes, but when we developed Go2SA I thought, “Hey, you better practice what you preach…”. So I took a day and formatted some of the data.

Data that has been formatted so far:

The articles is formatted using the hAtom format.

The events is formatted using the hCalendar format.

The members’ listings is formatted using the hCard format.

The tags are all rel-tag formatted.

There is still lots of scope for improvement. We’d like to geo tag all our members. Maybe geo tag the photos in the photo gallery.

As soon as some of my most major projects are completed, I am going to attend to those!

Oh, btw, for the guys that have the Operator+ Firefox/Flock Plugin: If you go to Go2SA and you go into an event, you’ll be able to save it to your Google Calendar using the Operator+ plugin! Cool, eh?

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8 Comments to "Go2SA full of Microformat goodness"

• Neil Blakey-Milner said: On 05/04/2007 at 11:26 am

  Google Calendar is very particular about the format of dtstart and dtend, so adding events doesn’t work yet, I’m afraid. The one thing that does work is using Zulu time (ie, no timezone). I wonder if the preferred iso8601 format (ie, with dashes and colons) would work better…

• Neil Blakey-Milner said: On 05/04/2007 at 11:28 am

  While I’m at it, the iso8601 library for Python I found for my hCalendar parsing only did the preferred format, but it took a small regex edit to get it to work properly.

• Stii said: On 05/04/2007 at 11:38 am

  Neil, using the Operator+ extension works 100%. At least for me it did!

• Stii said: On 05/04/2007 at 11:43 am

  Here is a link to the screenshot of the event in Google Calendar:

  http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p233/stii_photos/google-calendar.png?t=1178278911

• Neil Blakey-Milner said: On 05/04/2007 at 1:13 pm

  I’m using Operator 0.7, and it doesn’t work. I am using a Google Apps For Your Domain calendar, not the “standard” Google Calendar, but I doubt that’s a problem. I can add the events on Google Calendar on my web site like on http://nxsy.org/blog/archives/2007/04/23/clug-talk-erlang which uses Z/UTC/GMT for the timezone.

• Stii said: On 05/04/2007 at 1:33 pm

  Changed it. Let me know if it still hassles you, please! Shot Neil.

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 05/04/2007 at 4:33 pm

  Neil, good thing you mentioned the Google Apps thing. That’s the same I’m using and I also constantly have trouble. As a matter of fact, I marked up something on my blog using hCalendar and tried to add it to Google Calendar using Operator. It didn’t work. (I didn’t use UTC time though.) Then I asked Stii and he said it did work for him.

  I am really starting to think that there’s a bug here with Google Apps.

• Charl van Niekerk » Blog: Operator & Google Apps said: On 05/11/2007 at 6:21 pm

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