Comments on: Facebook hCard Microformat Application

By: microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges” : hCards at facebook

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:51:13 +0000

[...] a facebook account, you can now add hCards to your profile page courtesy of this Application from Eran Sandler (whose day job is at Yedda, which I mentioned a while back [...]

By: Eran

Eran — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:31:41 +0000

Daniel,
I know my app is useless :-) The main reason I did it is to try and convince the Facebook developers to add it by default in their Contacts box.

I couldn’t do it without duplicating the information because that’s how Microforamts works. You can always collapse the application’s box in your profile and the various browser plugins will still be able to find it.

I could have “hidden” using CSS styles, but then no one would understand why they have a profile box with nothing inside of it.

By: Daniel Aleksandersen

Daniel Aleksandersen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:42:18 +0000

Wow… Now that is really useless. Why would anyone want their contact information showing up twice on their profile!? If it where done either silently in the background or by updating the existing tags it would be another matter. But just adding a duplicate with the proper markup? That does not work well at all. Facebook’s developers should be pushed to do a proper implementation instead.