So far, actions for Operator have focused on exporting data or connecting to an existing web service. Rosie Morales from MITRE has shown that actions can do much more interesting things, like actually create new views of the microformats by saving the data to a local file and displaying it. These actions are based on the Simile project.
Note these actions only work properly with Operator 0.8b.
The Simile Timeline action is an action that acts on all events on a web page. It creates a local file that contains a Simile Timeline representation of the data and then displays it.
The Exhibit Timeline action is an action that acts on all events on a web page. It creates a local file that contains a Exhibit Timeline representation of the data and then displays it.
The Exhibit action is an action that acts on all contacts on a web page or one contact on a web page. It creates a local file that contains a Exhibit representation of the data and then displays it.
I will be documenting how you can create an action that acts on all instances of a given microformat very soon.
Cool Userscripts
Although they don’t work for me at all, nothing happens when I choose the actions.
Does not work for me. It’s open a blank browser window without any content in it.
I am using danish Firefox 2.0.0.6 on a danish Windows XP SP2.
the idea looks very cool
This is way hot, and a great example of the “faceted browsing” use case that Alex has long-positied would be the thing that makes uFormats incredibly useful.
From a quick read-through, the JS seems to reach out across the network to send data to and fetch the rendered timeline from a web service offered by MITRE. Is there any way to locally cache that functionality (which is probably fairly static) to reduce bandwidth and potentially improve speed?
The timeline API is hosted by MIT and not Mitre.
The URL for the API is http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/timeline-api.js”
The URL for timeline documentation is http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html
Can you provide the URL for the web page with hcalendar microformats you we’re trying to view with timeline so I can fix the bug?
Thanks
I have fixed the problem with the timeline script.
The JSON file for the timeline was not being parsed correctly.
Hi again
None of the timeline scripts works yet – I have testet hCalendar page
http://mangospot.dk/Steder/156/FatterEskil.aspx and http://www.microformats.dk/2007/07/03/næsten-midt-i-en-jazztid/
However the Exhibit action works but the special danish charcters æ,ø,å Æ,Ø,Å does not show up correct
see screendump http://www.microformats.dk/teknik/hcard/testscript.jpg
I have look at the JSON output fx “address: ” Nytorv 3 K�benhavn K 1450 “,
but following way must be the correct way to do it
“address: ” Nytorv 3 K\u00F8benhavn K 1450 “,
so the ø in København shows up correctly?
hope you understood my description above
Søren,
The errors are in the function timelineData(semanticObject, semanticObjectType). The last record is the JSON file does have all of the properties for an event.
The original for loop
for (var i in hcalendars1)
is executing one too many times so the JSON data file does not build correctly.
I made two changes to the timelineData function.
The first on is the for loop, which should look like this:
for (var i in hcalendars-1) {
and the second is for the variable event at the end of the function, before the
if statement used to add the last comma to the JSON file.
I added an if statement to prevent adding a null vevent.
if (event.length > 0)
{ events += event + dtEnd + title + description + link + color + “}” + “\r\n”;
zones += zone ;
zones2 += zone2 ;}
I’ll check the problems with the special characters.
Thanks for help, and yes I understand your description.