Tag Archives: microformats

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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Article on the Firefox 3 Microformats API

Rob Crowther has an article on IBM developerworks about the new Microformats API in Firefox 3. Thanks to microformatique for finding it.

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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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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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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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Operator 0.9 is available

NOTE: There is a problem with the zh-TW, hr-HR, cs-CZ, pt-BR and ru-RU translations. I’ll post a 0.9.1 when I get this worked out. Unfortunately this makes Operator 0.9 unusable in those languages because for some reason Babelzilla replaced the … Continue reading

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Operator 0.9g (Release Candidate) available

I’m making a release candidate for Operator available hoping that I can shake out any last bugs in it. It’s available here. Note the release candidate is English only. I have it on Babelzilla at this moment getting translated. First … Continue reading

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One Year of Operator

It’s been one year since I released Operator and I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone who is using it and has had good things to say about it. I haven’t advanced the technology as much as I … Continue reading

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Operator 0.9 beta available

I’m making available a beta of Operator 0.9, which has support for Firefox 3 and uses the built-in Firefox 3 microformats support. The primary focus of this release has been performance, and I believe it shows. Sites like the Samsonite … Continue reading

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