Microformats catching on

Microformats seem to be catching on rather quickly.

Technorati already supports several. Weblogs are already beginning to use them. Very shortly, some of the leading web browsers will support them as well.

Go take ao look at the blog entry linked to below. It features a review of a popular social website, and the review is marked up using the jReview Microformat.

Johnny's Software Saloon: review of TV.com website with embedded hReview microformat metadata:

Note this blog post has been encoded with hReview standard format microformat metadata in order to make it easily digestible by social web services like Techorati.com and modern web browsers like Firefox 2.0.

CSS was originally designed for controlling font appearances and content layout on web pages. However, some of its element attributes are now seeing double-duty use as metadata fields.