Operator Add-on - Microformats get useful
Discussions about native support for Microformats in 2008+ browser versions (FF3 and IE8) are up since the last major releases are public. The Operator Add-on for Firefox already shows possible ways how it could work. To install - visit Firefox Add-ons.
I especially like the "Highlight Microformats" function - that draws a black border around the semantic content when hovering over it with the mouse. The context menu adds actions that are possible in the context of the semantic mark-up. Like seen on the screenshot below for a hCalendar - ability to add the event to Google Calendar as an example.
Note that the "Highlight Microformats" has been added in version 0.6.2 and is yet disabled by default - use the Add-on Options to activate it.
For me - this finally shows the real power of Microformats - provide users the ability to easily reuse information and transport them between applications without losing semantics. In order to reach mainstream with Microformats we need the browser vendors to add infrastructure that allow services to hook-in on the semantics (like we have today with the search engine integration).
Read more about Operator on the announcement on labs.mozilla.org.
Tags: operator firefox microformats
I especially like the "Highlight Microformats" function - that draws a black border around the semantic content when hovering over it with the mouse. The context menu adds actions that are possible in the context of the semantic mark-up. Like seen on the screenshot below for a hCalendar - ability to add the event to Google Calendar as an example.
Note that the "Highlight Microformats" has been added in version 0.6.2 and is yet disabled by default - use the Add-on Options to activate it.
For me - this finally shows the real power of Microformats - provide users the ability to easily reuse information and transport them between applications without losing semantics. In order to reach mainstream with Microformats we need the browser vendors to add infrastructure that allow services to hook-in on the semantics (like we have today with the search engine integration).
Read more about Operator on the announcement on labs.mozilla.org.
Tags: operator firefox microformats
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