Mat, microformats are designed to add additional semantics to HTML to help a document author communicate the meaning of the content when HTML’s own semantics are not expressive enough.
Therefore it makes not sense to add them with JavaScript – it’s totally the wrong layer. Whilst it’s true that some of these little utility parsers run in a browser and therefore have JavaScript available (in which case why touch the document at all, right?), most parsers won’t have JavaScript and a DOM to work with.
Google and Yahoo both have some pretty neat microformats-based search tools in development that you can play with and get an idea of how useful structured data really is.
Drew McLellan
Mat, microformats are designed to add additional semantics to HTML to help a document author communicate the meaning of the content when HTML’s own semantics are not expressive enough.
Therefore it makes not sense to add them with JavaScript – it’s totally the wrong layer. Whilst it’s true that some of these little utility parsers run in a browser and therefore have JavaScript available (in which case why touch the document at all, right?), most parsers won’t have JavaScript and a DOM to work with.
Google and Yahoo both have some pretty neat microformats-based search tools in development that you can play with and get an idea of how useful structured data really is.