Tag Archives: microformats

Operator and Page Load Performance

One of the biggest complaints about Operator is that it affects performance when loading pages and switching tabs. I’ve been spending the past few weeks analyzing these problems and I think I have them mostly solved. Note that page load … Continue reading

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Microformats and Web Services Redux

Earlier I made a comment about how I wished there was a better way to connect microformats to web services. I’d like to elaborate on that comment and see if I could get some discussion going around the subject. First … Continue reading

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Getting microformats working with web services

Hey Google, Yahoo! and 30 Boxes (and others). PLEASE create places where I can simply POST vCards or iCals or microformats or JSON or something else to your services to add contacts and calendar entries. I’m not a web app, … Continue reading

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iDOO and Operator

The website iDOO added support for hCards and created an Operator user script to integrate with iDOO. The even plugged Operator in their announcement. Nice work! You can get more information here.

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Latest Operator News

Operator 0.8 is getting very close. I’m trying to finalize some UI stuff, specifically for testing some stuff for Firefox 3. Stay tuned. In the mean time, here’s some random things I need to post. Operator 0.8 is going to … Continue reading

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SIMILE Actions for Operator

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 … Continue reading

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Operator and hAudio

One of the cool things that you can do with Operator is experiment with new microformats. The folks at Digital Bazaar and others have been working on an hAudio microformat and David Lehn has created some experimental Operator User Scripts … Continue reading

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Writing User Scripts for Operator

I think the APIs in Operator 0.8b have settled down enough that I can start to document how to write user scripts. Note these user scripts are for Operator, NOT for Firefox 3. How things will work in Firefox 3 … Continue reading

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Operator 0.8b is Available

I have made a beta of Operator 0.8 available. Continued thanks to Elias Torres for the RDFa support. Operator 0.8b adds a much requested feature – an operator icon on the location bar. It’s not perfect yet, but it is … Continue reading

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New Actions for Operator 0.8

I know I’ve been slacking on posting information on how to create actions for Operator 0.8. I’ve been tweaking the API a little bit, so that’s why I’ve been hesitant. Operator 0.8 beta will be very soon, and then I’ll … Continue reading

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