Tag Archives: microformats

Operator 0.8a is Available

Posted on June 4, 2007 by mkaply

I have made an alpha of Operator 0.8 available. Special thanks to Elias Torres for the RDFa support. My primary goal with Operator 0.8a was to attempt to finalize APIs for both Operator and Firefox 3. What I actually ended … Continue reading →

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Where is the next version of Operator?

Posted on May 23, 2007 by mkaply

You might have heard from Elias Torres that we have RDFa working in Operator. You might also be wondering where that version is. Basically I’ve been working very hard to finalize the APIs so that I can get things ready … Continue reading →

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Microformats and Firefox 3 (for Developers)

Posted on May 9, 2007 by mkaply

So let’s talk about what Firefox 3 will hopefully offer for developers. The goal is that extension authors will have an API to access microformatted data directly without worrying about parsing. In addition, there will be a model for adding … Continue reading →

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Microformats and Firefox 3 (for Users)

Posted on May 4, 2007 by mkaply

I’m now the official owner of microformats support in Firefox 3. Here is the preliminary design document. At this point, we’ll primarily be focusing on making microformats available to extension developers, with very little UI. The primary motivator behind this … Continue reading →

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Operator Action Architecture

Posted on April 24, 2007 by mkaply

One of the things I’ve been trying to finalize for the next release of Operator is the action architecture. Here’s what things look like now. ufJSActions.actions.corkd_search_tags = {   description: “Find wines on Cork’d”,   icon: “http://corkd.com/favicon.ico”,   scope: {     semantic: {       ”tag” … Continue reading →

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Operator 0.7 is available

Posted on April 4, 2007 by mkaply

Operator 0.7 is on addons.mozilla.org. I have a few things I wanted to share about this release. New features will be at the end of this post. I’m not sure people realize there are other ways to interact with Operator … Continue reading →

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Operator and DOM Mutation Events

Posted on March 22, 2007 by mkaply

This is working so well, I have to tell the world. I just added support for DOM Mutation events to Operator. So now when DOM nodes are added and removed from the document, Operator will update appropriately. But that’s not … Continue reading →

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SXSW Wrapup

Posted on March 14, 2007 by mkaply

I’m back to work after an action packed few days. SXSW Interactive started Friday night and when I got there, the line was outrageous, so I thought I was going to miss the first panel I wanted to attend. After … Continue reading →

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SXSW – Posting from my Wii (mostly)

Posted on March 8, 2007 by mkaply

If you are going to be at SXSW this year, you can catch me at the microformats panel on Monday at 2. I’ll also be at the Mozilla/Democracy party Monday night. (Feel free to use Operator to add those events … Continue reading →

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Operator Source Code is Finally Available

Posted on February 21, 2007 by mkaply

Update:ufJS and ufJSParser have ended up being integrated into Microformats.js. This will also be the core microformats code in Firefox 3. The API is documented here. My apologies for taking so long, but the Operator source code is finally on … Continue reading →

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