Microformats for like yer mum

Ahh yes. Microformats. Great little snip-its of mark-up. If you know what they are and how to use them. This one of the things I've been struggling with at work. I want to include them but I also need to make sure that the general public can also utilize them (this is assuming that they also know how to use vCards and iCal). As Francine puts it: “I have to 1)run Firefox as my browser and 2)download a plug-in”. I would suspect that most people don't want to change their browsers nor download a plug-in for something they don't understand.

So whats the solution? I don't think there is an easy one. For things like vCards and the like they could use x2v and the Technorati feeds. But what about hAtom, hResume and hReview?