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learning hAtom

I'm beginning to play with hAtom today. HAtom is a microformat for content you might want to syndicate but you don't have in a blogging platform. You might use hAtom for:

  • An events calendar
  • A homegrown blog
  • An announcements section of your website

Like other microformats, hAtom uses standardized classes to tell browsers what kind of content is on a page. In this case, hAtom tells your browser that there is syndicated content available.

I am testing this idea in the sandbox and hope to learn enough about it to make an essentials post soon. I've found Guy Leech's article, Minimizing hAtom to be very helpful.

There are also good code examples at microformats.org.

Is anyone else using hAtom?

Posted by Laurie McGinley on April 21, 2008 09:45 AM |

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