microformat

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ format

Noun

microformat (plural microformats)

1. (computing) A simple data format that can be embedded in a webpage.
   • 2007, John Allsopp, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0, Apress, →ISBN, page 95:

     This type of microformat is, according to microformats.org, “a minimal solution to a single problem, built from standard XHTML elements.” More complex microformats that are built from elemental microformats and often also other HTML […]

Synonyms

• μF (abbreviation, rare)

See also

• microdata

Further reading

• microformat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia