On 6/5/07, Montgomery, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I also agree with Mike, Paul and others here. I read that someone raised
the question about keyboard navigation and the only real solution to
that problem I think would be to lift microformats out of the actual
webpage and into the the browser UI.
Mike Kaply wrote:
I'm considering experimenting with putting a microformats icon on the
URL bar similar to the RSS icon, but that would be Operator only. The
Firefox folks specifically don't want to clutter up that bar.
That would be the absolutely best solution - I hope that the Operator
will show the Firefox crew that Microformats isn't clitter.
Mike Kaply wrote:
The basic problem with Firefox is that they don't want to clutter the UI
with something that might not be used a lot (this is a statement about
all microformats in the UI)
What they referrer to here is whether the users will actually use the
microformats and not if the developers will support it - right? Because
if the developers don't support it it won't clutter the UI - only if the
users don't use it it becomes clutter.
I personally think that microformats support would be more popular than
RSS-support. The latter has only been adopted by some people and have a
bit of a learning curve - a microformat almost doesn't have a learning
curve because it is information in a way we've all already worked with.
I personally would say that what would clutter Firefox is when it
intrudes into my webpage. What wouldn't clutter Firefox is a friendly
notification of the presence of some hidden data.
/ Pelle
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