Mike, I must say the way I'm using Operator in Flock & Firefox at the moment (using the auto-hide function for the toolbar) is working well for me.
I think one way to go is to utilize the same functionality as the "this site wants to open pop-up windows" that Firefox has. A small toolbar-like message that appears above the page, but not seemingly part of the chrome, that informs you there are microformats on the page. This could then disappear after a short time or after a click to "highlight" them on the page or open a sidebar/toolbar to interact with them. I think automatically highlighting by use of a icon (webcards) or change of cursor is cool to start with but I personally tired of it after a while. I would love to see a new button in the URL bar, like Flock has for when there is RSS, media streams or a SE plugin on the page. That is one feature of the new Flock I find I'm using a lot now. I also think there should be something to check in the options panel so I can choose to have any action based on a microformat in the page, open a new tab or window, if it doesn't involve an external application. Maybe that's on a new tab within options where I can set the default handlers for different microformats? I'm really looking forward to this being part of the new Firefox. Dave On 9/4/07, Mike Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- David Mead ------------------------------------------------ www.dmwebsites.com www.viewfromw6th.com www.refreshcleveland.org _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
