Microsoft为Microformats带来了一点惊喜！

Historically, it hasn’t been very often that I’ve been able to tip my hat to Microsoft for open web innovation. Today though is one of those times that I get to do so. John Allsopp, one of Microformats’s biggest supporters, mentioned today that Microsoft’s designer/developer community, Mix Online, has developed a IE toolbar called Oomph.

从历史上看，我很少能向开放式创新的微软公司致敬。 虽然今天是我这样做的时代之一。 Microformats的最大支持者之一John Allsopp 今天提到 ，微软的设计师/开发人员社区Mix Online开发了一个名为Oomph的IE工具栏。

Oomph, much like Operator in Firefox, pulls microformatted information from a page and allows the user to make use of this data by offering options like being able to export contact information, map addresses, and add events to your calendar.

Oomph就像Firefox中的Operator一样，从页面中提取微格式的信息，并允许用户通过提供诸如能够导出联系信息，映射地址以及向日历添加事件的选项来利用这些数据。

That would be enough in itself to get my attention…Microsoft has not typically been the most open of companies, and despite Gates’ declaration that the web needs Microformats, they really hadn’t done much to advance its’ use. Seeing their developer community get behind Microformats with the toolbar and a couple of nice Microformats articles is very encouraging.

这本身就足以引起我的注意……微软通常并不是最开放的公司，尽管盖茨宣称网络需要微格式，但他们实际上并没有做很多事情来促进其使用。 看到他们的开发人员社区通过工具栏落后于Microformats，以及一些不错的Microformats 文章，这非常令人鼓舞。

However, there’s more to this story. In addition to the IE toolbar, a cross-browser Javascript implementation of Oomph was created. The toolkit, which makes use of JQuery, provides the same functionality of Oomph no matter the browser being utilized.

但是，这个故事还有更多。 除了IE工具栏外，还创建了Oomph的跨浏览器Javascript实现。 无论使用何种浏览器，使用JQuery的工具包都提供与Oomph相同的功能。

What’s so wonderful about the way the Oomph toolkit functions is that the useful data is all right there in the browser window. Without the visitor leaving the site, they can grab a vcard of your contact information, see a listing of upcoming events, or make use of Visual Earth and view a map of a location.

Oomph工具包的功能之所以如此奇妙，是因为有用的数据就在浏览器窗口中。 无需访问者离开站点，他们就可以获取您的联系信息的名片，查看即将发生的事件的列表，或者使用Visual Earth并查看位置地图。

This is, I think, a fairly major move. The beauty of Microformats is how easy it is to make your content more meaningful, and more useful. By providing similar data in a specific format, it significantly decreases the effort necessary to extract that data, and then use it. Having a cross-browser implementation of a script that makes use of this data to enhance its’ functionality is really a nice feature and a great way to show off the value of using Microformats.

我认为这是一个相当重大的举措。 微格式的妙处在于，使您的内容更有意义，更有用是多么容易。 通过以特定格式提供相似数据，可以显着减少提取该数据然后再使用该数据所需的工作量。 跨脚本浏览器实现可以利用这些数据来增强其功能，这确实是一个不错的功能，也是炫耀使用微格式的价值的好方法。

What’s best is that since the toolkit makes use of Javascript and CSS for the effects and layout, we can modify the functionality and appearance for usage on our own sites. Technorati already offered services to help us extract contact information or event information, but the Oomph toolkit expands upon that functionality and allows us to offer even more enhanced options for visitors.

最好的是，由于该工具包将Javascript和CSS用于效果和布局，因此我们可以修改功能和外观以在自己的网站上使用。 Technorati已经提供了帮助我们提取联系方式或事件信息的服务，但是Oomph工具包扩展了该功能，并允许我们为访客提供更多增强的选项。

All in all, I am very pleased by this development. Microformats is such a valuable technology that is long overdue for mainstream implementation. It’s nice to see yet another big supporter coming through to help it get there. Along with Technorati’s tools and the fantastic Optimus Microformats transformer by Dmitry Baranovskiy, the resouces are in place and it should be interesting to see the ways these tools are utilized to provide a better user experience for visitors.

总而言之，我对这一发展感到非常满意。 微格式是一项非常有价值的技术，早已不适合主流实施。 很高兴看到另一个大的支持者来帮助它实现目标。 连同Technorati的工具和Dmitry Baranovskiy出色的Optimus Microformats变压器一样 ，资源也就位，并且有趣的是，看到了利用这些工具为访问者提供更好的用户体验的方式。

翻译自: https://timkadlec.com/2008/10/microsoft-gives-microformats-a-little-oomph/