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Microsoft Activities for Firefox

After looking at Microsoft Activities in IE8 and noticing that they look suspiciously like my ideas around actions in Operator, I decided to implement them in Firefox. For your downloading pleasure, here is a first pass at Activities support in … 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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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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Operator 0.8 is available

Operator 0.8 is now available from addons.mozilla.org. One of the first things you’ll notice is that I changed the default view to be data formats instead of actions. I did this because I found this is what most people did … Continue reading

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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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