Mozilla is currently leading the major browser vendors in bringing semantics to everyday Web browsing, courtesy of tools built into its upcoming Firefox 3 Web browser. However, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) may not be far behind too. Both the browsers are working to include certain measure of support for microformats — a simple means of categorizing Web content as metadata. Alex Faaborg, Mozilla’s user experience designer, “Firefox 3’s microformats API and support for detecting different types of content inside of RSS feeds are both important steps in the direction of creating a Semantic Web browser.”
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