BlogWikiDiscussAboutCode & ToolsGet StartedLatest microformats newsmicroformats.org at 11Thanks to Julie Anne Noying for the meme birthday card.In this day and age of web frameworks that rise and fall like seasonal fashion displays, bait-and-break APIs, and sudden site-deaths, it’s nothing short of incredible that we’ve been able to continue evolving, improving, and growing microformats use for 11 years. All that incremental work has produced quite a lot since a year ago. Most recently, we’ve made great progress with iterating, publishing, and deploying microformats2 support.I believe microformats.org has surived as a community, and microformats as a technology, by continuing to focus on solving smaller, simpler problems first, and then iterating only as needed with real world use-cases. It’s an approach I think works as a good starting point for nearly any project. -Tantek10,000s of microformats2 sites and now 10 microformats2 parsersThe past year saw a huge leap in the number of sites publishing microformats2, from 1000s to now 10s of thousands of sites, primarily by adoption in the IndieWebCamp community, and especially the excellent Known publishing system and continually improving WordPress plugins & themes.New modern microformats2 parsers continue to be developed in various languages, and this past year, four new parsing libraries (in three different languages) were added, almost doubling our previous set of six (in five different languages) that brought our year 11 total to 10 microformats2 parsing libraries available in 8 different programming languages.microformats2 parsing spec updatesThe microformats2 parsing specification has made significant progress in the past year, all of it incremental iteration based on real world publishing and parsing experience, each improvement discussed openly, and tested with real world implementations. The microformats2 parsing spec is the core of what has enabled even simpler publishing and processing of microformats.The specification has reached a level of stability and interoperability where fewer issues are being filed, and those that are being filed are in general more and more minor, although once in a while we find some more interesting opportunities for improvement.We reached a milestone two weeks ago of resolving all outstanding microformats2 parsing issues thanks to Will Norris leading the charge with a developer spec hacking session at the recent IndieWeb Summit where he gathered parser implementers and myself (as editor) and walked us through issue by issue discussions and consensus resolutions. Some of those still require minor edits to the specification, which we expect to complete in the next few days.One of the meta-lessons we learned in that process is that the wiki  really is less suitable for collaborative issue filing and resolving, and as of today are switching to using a GitHub repo for filing any new microformats2 parsing issues.more microformats2 parsersThe number of microf