Sorry for the delay in replying, just got back from vacation.
Our challenge, in my estimation, is to move beyond simple data
conversion (as useful as that is compared with what little we have
today) and start to look at the meeting point between semantic data in
webpages and behaviors that can be contextually applied to them.
I've been trying to brainstorm what these contextual behaviors might
be. One approach could be to combine the detected information with
additional information to complete an action. For instance,
generating driving directions from the user's home (which is in their
profile) to a location (which is exposed on the page using a
microformat). Or checking if the user is free for a particular event
by automatically looking up the event's time slot in their calendar.
Can you think of other contextual behaviors that could be useful?
-Alex
On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
Alex, welcome and congrats on the release!
As I was telling Tantek last night, you've now "operationalized" his
hcard demo. ;)
This is really quite cool and a great start.
Our challenge, in my estimation, is to move beyond simple data
conversion (as useful as that is compared with what little we have
today) and start to look at the meeting point between semantic data in
webpages and behaviors that can be contextually applied to them.
A simple salient example is in Camino, where you right-click an email
address and the menu offers you the ability to copy just the email
address *or* look it up in Address Book. Clearly for any hcard, this
behavior makes sense and I'd like to see work done (some of which I'm
working on personally) to explore the user interface opportunities
that microformats provide, espeically for browser makers.
Chris
On 12/16/06, Angus McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 03:23 -0800 16.12.2006, Alex Faaborg wrote:
>Today Mozilla Labs released a microformat extension for Firefox 2
>named Operator. The extension was developed by Michael Kaply at
IBM,
>and detects hCard, hCalendar, geo, hReview and rel-tag.
>http://labs.mozilla.com/2006/12/introducing-operator
Nice.
One thing I notice is that if I view my resume (in hResume) at:
http://www.nomadcode.com/info/resumeAngusMcIntyre.html
the Operator menu shown under Google Calendar correctly pulls out all
the hCalendar entries, but munges title and company together, i.e.
Software developerblip.tv, ...
Is this a flaw in Operator, or should I be marking up my resume
differently to be more Operator-friendly?
I've also encountered cases where it's not picking up what I believe
to be a valid hCard, but I need to review my code to see whether it's
really as valid as I think it is before reporting that as a bug.
Angus
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