Fellow Nestoris!
For some time now momentum on the internet has slowly been building for
microformats and the
semantic web.
More and more these data formats and technologies are moving from theory to reality, with recent
adoption from internet giants like Yahoo! to innovative start ups like London-based
Retangle (still invite only). The most recent
beta version of popular internet browser Firefox supports microformats and may be a key step on the path to much wider adoption.
We here at Nestoria always have our eyes open for any possible new technology or technique that may help you find your next home more easily. Today we continue this tradition by rolling out support for the
hListing microformat on our search result pages.
We should note, the format is still under proposal, and to our knowledge there’s only
one known in-the-wild parser - so this is bleeding edge stuff that might be useful in the future rather than an amazing new functionality for property searchers today. Nevertheless, even the mightiest oak grows from the tiny acorn. No doubt future microformat application developers are grateful to find live examples. We look forward to playing our party in the future growth of the semantic web.
If interested, read about our other
efforts to support open standards and the open source development community.
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Hi Ed,
It’s great to see that other companies are implementing hListing as well. I’m about to resume work as editor of the spec, so keep an eye on the microformats-new list if you have the time to contribute.
In terms of parsers, my hKit-based parser should work for most simple uses of hListing consumption, although is currently limited a little by hKit itself. Since my article was published, a new release of Optimius has come out with hListing support (http://microformatique.com/optimus/) and the source for David Jane’s Python-based ‘Almost Universal Microformats Parser’ will be available again very soon (err, tomorrow I hope).
Regards,
Ben