I took the effort and modified the MyPlaces script to support both the Yahoo! and Google Maps APIs. I also fixed a problem with the generator application not working in IE.
I like the idea of having a webpage consume its own microformat - whereas common usage of microformats indirectly benefit the author (through aggregation), with this script I was able to provide immediate benefit to the author for using microformats. Maybe the key to more widespread adoption is to provide more apparent benefit for authors.
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Doug 06.09.06 at 6:31 am
Your example does not work in IE 6.0 on Windows 2000. Any ideas why?
Doug 06.09.06 at 6:34 am
Well, now I just realized that Yahoo’s examples don’t work either. Since they claim it does, I’m thinking it must be a problem over here.
But I don’t know how to debug it. No Firebug for IE!