I think some folks here are missing the point in the Microformats/Firefox 3 discussion.
We are trying to foster a discussion about what to do with microformats in Firefox 3, we are not trying to tell you what we are going to do. This is a very difficult problem to solve and we need input on it. At this point, the microformats community has primarily been focused on marking up microformats. We want people to start thinking about how to communicate microformats to the user. So here are a few discussion points to get people focused: 1. Microformats UI in the browser needs to be a "transient UI." That is, dedicating permanent space in the browser to a technology that is not available on most sites probably doesn't make much sense (at least at first). What does transient UI in a browser look like? 2. Microformats are in page, and there needs to be some way to indicate the microformats are available on the page that doesn't offend page authors. How can we accomplish this? Discuss. Incidentally, Operator was always intended to be a UI experiment in microformats. I'm finding that most people use the toolbar (probably because it's the default). But there are six different ways to interact with microformats in Operator (http://www.kaply.com/weblog/operator). Mike Kaply _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
