Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Apple Data Detectors

2008-02-08 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Toby A Inkster wrote: Guillaume Lebleu wrote: What I have been thinking more and more and what this tells me again is that the same way we talk of POSH and microformats, we could talk of plain text or plain old english formats, essentially standardizing how people write dates, addresses,

[uf-discuss] Re: Apple Data Detectors

2008-02-08 Thread Toby A Inkster
Guillaume Lebleu wrote: What I have been thinking more and more and what this tells me again is that the same way we talk of POSH and microformats, we could talk of plain text or plain old english formats, essentially standardizing how people write dates, addresses, etc on the Web or on their

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Apple Data Detectors

2008-02-08 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Toby, Here is an implementation of what I described in my previous post by Yahoo. http://shortcuts.yahoo.com/ They offer a Wordpress plugin that detects objects from plain old english patterns as you write your blog post, then asks you for disambiguation and whether you want to link to it (to

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Apple Data Detectors

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Faaborg
On the other end, if, as I type this, I get an intellisense-like list of my contacts that I can select from, then I can just select Joe from the list and have the microformat markup added for me I've been thinking a lot about how a Web browser could help end users author microformatted