Comments on: Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:31:20 +0000

Yeah, it sounds the mashup creation tools you are describing could work well as an extension to Firefox 3. I should note that our work on microformats is still extremely preliminary, and we haven’t formally committed to microformat detection yet. However, I would encourage you to keep up on Firefox 3 development, and to start developing an extension as soon as the underlying mechanisms for accessing microformats are in place.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:24:00 +0000

Hey Alex, I understand that Rod hooked up with you on this already… we would be interested in doing some work to further this capability with our own and further the microformats cause.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:42:15 +0000

Ok, I see what you mean. Currently in our UI mockups the user will be responsible for pushing data (the R/WW article made it sound more automatic than it probably will end up being), so they will be able to control the flow as they encounter microformats.

Going directly from the map to the address book however isn’t possible from our position, since we don’t control the mapping application.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:07:04 +0000

let’s say, for example, that you have an hcard that you first want to plot on a map and then, if selected, insert into your address book, or you want that hcard to go into linkedin rather than your address book. Data flow versus data integration.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:34:26 +0000

>doing it in preferred sequence equally important and itâ€™s not clear what or how Firefox could do that

Can you explain what you mean by preferred sequence?

-Alex