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Microformats API in Firefox 3

via the ever vigilant Chris Messina, this section at the Mozilla Developers Centre on the new microformats APIs in Firefox 3.

2007 10 20 john microformats Comments (0)

Operator turns 0.8, gets homepage, eRDF and RDFa support and more

Michael Kaply’s fantastic microformats extension for Firefox, Operator, just turned 0.8, and has also acquired its own page. Operator also now recognizes embedded RDF, and RDFa, and has a slew of other fixes and new features (including auto hide of the toolbar, a great idea).
[tags]microformats, operator, firefox, rdfa, erdf[/tags]

2007 08 27 john RDFa
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Some actual microformats related information

OK,
back to the main point of the ‘tique - microformats. Mozillalinks today carries an interview with Michael Kaply, developer of the very nice Firefox extension Operator.
Michael talks about what lies ahead for Operator, and what support for microformats in Firefox 3 may well look like.
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[tags]microformats, operator, firefox[/tags]

2007 08 21 john microformats
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Operator 0.8b is out

Quick note on the latest version of the fabulous operator extension for Firefox, out now.
[tags]operator, firefox, microformats[/tags]

2007 07 04 john microformats Comments (0)

Operator 0.8 released

Michael Kaply’s fantastic Operator extension for Firefox, which presents users with an array of functionality to do with the microformats it finds on a web page just got upgraded to 0.8.
Details at Michael’s blog, so head over, then download it.
[tags]microformats, operator, firefox[/tags]

2007 06 06 john microformats Comments (0)

IE.next, Firefox 3, operator, and so forth

A fair bit has been happening on the microformats+browsers front since the Web 2.0 Expo, where the issue, as recently discussed, got quite a bit of coverage.
Michael Kaply, developer of the Operator extension for Firefox, discusses Microformats and Firefox 3 (for Developers)
The goal is that extension authors will have an API to access microformatted […]

2007 05 10 john Uncategorized
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Operator 0.7

Michael Kaply has just updated the excellent Operator extension for Firefox to 0.7.
There’s a lot going on, so head over and check out the details, but a quick run down (from Michael’s description) includes

User interface for managing user scripts
Operator updated when DOM nodes are added or removed
Export All available for contacts and events
30 Boxes support […]

2007 04 04 john microformats Comments (0)

Thoughts on a browser UI for microformats

Software developer Grag Raiz has some thoughts on browser user interfaces for microformats over at his blog, Greg’s Head. Thoughtful and worth a read.
[tags]microformats, UI, firefox[/tags]

2007 03 01 john UI
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WebCards Firefox Extension for easy microformat consumption

The first beta of WebCards, an extension for Firefox that enables easy user consumption of microformatted content has just gone live. Similar in some ways to Tails and Operator, but a somewhat different user experience - you interact with the microformated content in the page itself, rather than via toolbars or floating windows within the […]

2007 02 16 john microformats Comments (4)

Firefox 3 plans for microformats - no just speculation anymore

As you might know, the planning process for Firefox 3 has been and is quite transparent - to the extent that a draft of their requirements documentation is now online at mozilla.org
The planned release timeframe is q3/4 2007, with a goal of one major release per year.
Microformats get an extensive mention - here is what […]

2007 01 11 john microformats Comments (1)