I like the idea of an icon that is activated when microformat content is available as mentioned by Paul. It would provide an immediate visual cue that information is available without direct user interaction such as having to hover of content or right-clicking. It would also provide a way to indicate information that may be hidden on the page. I picture it being similar to the RSS feed icon. Maybe it is something that also appears in the address bar.
For the record, I actually like the way the Operator add-on works in Firefox. It provides the mircoformat information broken down in different categories (contacts, calendar, maps, etc.) in the tool bar and the Options menu, it provides the ability to Highlight microformats on the page when you mouseover them (similar to the cursor concept). I also like the fact I can turn off this feature. However, I know that an entire tool bar takes up a lot of browser real estate and something more compact would be better. One last thing, are there any thoughts on which microformats would be supported by the Firefox UI? Would it be all of them? Maybe it would only be those that are specs and not drafts? Mike Montgomery -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Wilkins Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 4:31 PM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats gets strong showing in Firefox 3 UI Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > Why not just restrict the cursor thing to be activated over the actual > "data" of a Microformat. That sounds like a nice idea, but then you're getting into the realms of mystery-meat navigation. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html > For example... consider an hCard. It's true that the actual hCard > could span the whole page. But you could make the cursor thing happen > only when the cursor goes over the text of the name... the logo... and > stuff like that. > > (Did I explain that well enough?) > > So... you would NOT make the cursor thing happen over the span of the > Microformat. But you would make it happen over the actual "text", > "image", etc, data of the Microformat. How about if a microformats icon is activated when such content is available on the page. When you click on the logo, you get a dialog box containing all of the information, while hovering over the icon makes obvious the locations on the page where the microformat information is. Even if the information is made visible on the page in some manner, there are issues with long pages that have most of the microformat information off of the visible part of the page. -- Paul Wilkins _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
