Tag Archives: activities

Life Update

Haven’t posted in a while, thought I would give some updates. I just finished updating my Firefox Activities extension to work with Firefox 3.1/3.5. It has the much requested feature of opening new links in tabs. It also has custom … Continue reading

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Activities Review on a Japanese Website

Hey look – a review of IE8 Activities for Firefox I can’t read. Oh wait. I can use Activities to translate it. Sweet.

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Semantic Web Austin

GeekAustin hosted the Semantic Web Austin launch party last night. I was a speaker and got a chance to talk about Operator, Activities and the Microformats support in Firefox 3. I also took the opportunity to hand out some Firefox … Continue reading

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Updating OpenService for Microformats

This post details the ongoing work that Gustavo Garcia and I have been doing at http://microformats.org/wiki/OpenService_Extensions. Our stated goal is to figure out the best way to extend Microsoft’s OpenService specification to allow for microformat support (and possibly other functionality). … Continue reading

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Where are the microformats in Firefox 3?

With Firefox 3 RC1 available, I’m getting asked “Where are the microformats?” The answer is that there is a microformats API in Firefox 3, but unfortunately there is nothing available in the UI for this release. There are a couple … Continue reading

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Activities is out of the sandbox

Firefox Activities 0.7.1 is finally out of the sandbox. Go forth and install. Also, I’m making major progress on using openService files to create Operator actions. I should have something for people to see in the next week or so.

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Update on Activities, Microformats and Operator

I haven’t blogged in a while, so I wanted to give everyone a quick update on som of my projects. Activities Version 0.7.1 of Firefox Activities is waiting patiently to be moved out of the AMO sandbox. Unfortunately my 0.7 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Screwed Up Activities API Docs – It's addService NOT AddService

UPDATE: jst ROCKS! – I was able to do exactly what he said and I now have both cases of APIs working in my extension. OK, this is really starting to bother me because Activities are starting to show up … Continue reading

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New Activities, Updated Operator and More

I’ve made version 0.6 of Firefox Activities available in the Add-ons Sandbox. If you like it, please review it so I can get it moved out of the Sandbox. This version has a working preview for Firefox 3, as well … Continue reading

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An Analysis of Microsoft Activities

People seem to think that because I implemented Microsoft Activities for Firefox that I am agreeing with Microsoft’s solution. That conclusion is not correct. I simply implemented Activities because I thought it would be fun. But in the process of … Continue reading

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