There’s a new microformats toolkit in town, called Oomph. The toolkit is three parts: An add-on for Internet Explorer, a plug-in for Live Writer, and a website toolkit including a jQuery based overlay and some CSS stylesheets for beautifying microformats used on a website. I’m trying out the Live Writer plug-in.

Unfortunately, it shows that more attention has been paid to the overlay and IE add-on. So far, all it does is provide a quick and dirty form for adding an hCard, in block form, to a blog post. As yet, there’s no hCalendar support, nor a way to take a person’s name and make it into an inline hCard. That would probably be much more useful, except to people who are trying to turn a blog into an online rolodex or something.

Still, it’s a good start. For someone who knows their way around HTML to begin with, taking the hCards as generated by the Oomph plug-in for Live Writer and making them inline shouldn’t take much time or energy, and it’ll certainly be easier to do than adding an hCard by hand (as I’ve done in the past on the site). Perhaps the Oomph developers will soon add hCalendar support, inline support, and build a nicer user experience.

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