[uf-discuss] Announcing Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit

[Karsten Januszewski]

Greetings - I'm excited to announce the release of Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit, which just went live at http://visitmix.com/lab/oomph. The Mix Online team here at Microsoft wanted to do something with Microformats and Oomph is the result.

Our main goal with Oomph is to make Microformats more accessible for users, developers and designers. Oomph is an amalgamation of applications: an Internet Explorer Add-in built in C++; a cross-browser HTML overlay built using JQuery that aggregates Microformats (hCard and hCalendar); a set of CSS styles for Microformats; and a Windows Live Writer plug-in written for inserting hCards. And, the entire project is up on Codeplex (http://codeplex.com/oomph), ready for community contribution and extensibility.

We have a video that demos the various components of Oomph, although it hasn't been posted to the Mix Online site yet. But you can check it out on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2f2Z9MMQ8

I wanted to thank the various people who have responded to my questions on this alias. Now that we shipped, I look forward to continuing to work with folks moving forward and welcome your feedback. With all the code up on Codeplex, we have the opportunity to keep iterating on the code and we are seeking contributors to the project moving forward.

I also wanted to mention that, if any of you are at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference next week in LA, I'll be giving a talk on Oomph and Microformats, Wednesday October 29th. I'd love to meet up with folks while I'm there. And I'm hoping to make it to a Microformat meetup dinners one of these weeks in San Francisco.

Regards,
Karsten Januszewski

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[Chris Messina]

OMFG.

This is from Microsoft?! Next you'll say that you're implementing
OpenID. Oh... yeah. ;)

Congrats, this is great.

I'm a little confused about how to make use of this stuff on my Mac,
but for PC folks who use Internet Explorer, this must be pretty
useful!

Chris

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[David Janes]

Neat.

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[André Luís]

Hya,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Chris Messina <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
> OMFG.
>
> This is from Microsoft?!

Good question... is it?

Great work. Now all IE users can join the party as well! :D

Is it compatible with all IEs? 6, 7 and 8? And I haven't tried using
the Live Write extension but from the videos it appeared that if you
leave the address field blank it will add an element <div
class="adr"></div>... Shouldn't it be absent from the generated html?
Or was this fixed on the final version?

Thanks!

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[Manu Sporny]

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Karsten Januszewski
> <kars...@windows.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Greetings - I'm excited to announce the release of Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit,
> which just went live at http://visitmix.com/lab/oomph.

Great stuff, Karsten! Looking forward to seeing where this goes... what
are the next steps, if you're allowed to elaborate? Where are you
putting your efforts for the next 3-6 months regarding Oomph? Supporting
more Microformats? Doing more stuff like Ubiquity[1]?

What are the future goals for Oomph?

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[1] http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

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[Karsten Januszewski]

Thanks for catching that on the Live Writer plug-in. I've added a work item in Codeplex so that we can track it and update it ASAP.

http://www.codeplex.com/Oomph/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=758

As far as versions of IE, we've only tested on IE7 & 8.

Regards,
Karsten

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[Karsten Januszewski]

Thanks, Manu. Our plans for Oomph are to continue to maintain and improve it moving forward. There is an implementation (oomphx.js) already posted on Codeplex for supporting hAudio; I'd love to see more microformats supported moving forward. Part of the reason we've put the whole project on Codeplex is in the hopes that we can garner a community around the project who will also help move it forward.
As far as Ubiquity, from the brief look I took, it appears similar to IE8 accelerators and web slices [1], no?

Regards,
Karsten

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/readiness/developers-new.aspx

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From: microformats-d...@microformats.org [microformats-d...@microformats.org] On Behalf Of Manu Sporny [msp...@digitalbazaar.com]
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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Karsten Januszewski

[Karsten Januszewski]

Thanks, Chris.

There is a Mac story, btw. We've made oomph.js available [1] for websites to manually add to their pages with Microformats. In that case, any browser on any OS will get the "oomph" experience. You can see an example of on my blog [2] which should work on your Mac. In fact, you'll notice we provide "Export to Apple" icons for both hCard and hCalendar. Of course, behind the scenes, it is doing the exact same thing as the "Export to Outlook" icon: just generating a vCard or iCal from the hCard/hCalendar. :)

Regards,
Karsten

[1] http://www.codeplex.com/Oomph
[2] http://www.rhizohm.net/contact.html
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From: microformats-d...@microformats.org [microformats-d...@microformats.org] On Behalf Of Chris Messina [chris....@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:48 PM

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Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Announcing Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit

OMFG.