Pulling Information from a Page with Microformats Using the hCard example above and an extension add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser, it is possible to demonstrate a simple example of how powerful microformats can be. Michael Kaply at IBM has created an excellent extension called Operator, which you can download and install from the Mozilla Add-ons site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106
Once the extension is installed, users have either a new toolbar or a status bar icon that becomes active when visiting a Web page with data embedded in a microformat. The toolbar allows a multitude of ways to interact with a variety of microformats.
Since this example is an hCard, the Operator extension allows the user to export the embedded contact information to a vCard file, which can be imported into any software package that accepts that format, such as Microsoft Outlook. It is an incredibly easy and powerful way to add information to an address book directly from a Web page, particularly in a business environment.