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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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Operator 0.8a is Available

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?

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)

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)

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

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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