As most of my developer mates will attest I've drunk deep the microformats Kool-aid. I sometimes feel like a voice in the wilderness, especially when I get asked by a non-developer, to point out big name that is using them.
Well no longer.
Enter stage-left Google! That's right, the big G has now rolled out hCard support in Google Maps. This is great news for everyone, not just us enthusiasts, but, here's the thing. They don't seem to work correctly. At least not for me.
The Google post suggests using Operator or Tails, both of which I have in my Firefox but neither work in the most recent version of Flock. No biggy, as I just found LeftLogic's bookmarklet but when I test Google Maps with it I got this (see image)
- rubbish.
Okay. Lets try the suggested add-ons in Firefox. The same. Nothing of value could be exported to Outlook.
Now my initial feeling is great disappointment. Is it the extensions; my browser set-up or did Google not code these as they should? I don't know. But if it's the latter this could be a great blow to the adoption of these. If Google can't get it right why should we (smaller development companies) bother?
I'm hoping this is a glitch. I'll try tomorrow and look for more examples on blogs etc. but with adoption of microformats directly into the browsers around the corner I hope that it is just me. I'm 100% behind microformats but I still feel a little lonely.
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