[microformats-discuss] Step-by-step Greasemonkey Demo?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Sweet!  You totally rock. :-)

- Ernie P.

On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:16 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:

> Hi Ernie,
>
> Although I'm fairly certain that this isn't want Tantek used, I've  
> got a GreaseMonkey script that demos well and is entirely self- 
> contained.
>
> (1)
> - install microfomat-find [1]
>
> (2) hCard demos
> - go to Neil Dunn's vCard [2]
> - look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
> - click on "Add to Address Book"
> ... note the magic of the data: URI here ...
>
> - go to [3]
> - select any presenter
> - look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
> - click on "Show as Text"
>
> - go to [4]
> - look for the [hCard] icon and click on it
> - click on "Show on Google Maps"
> ... go "ooo and ahh" ...
>
> (3) xFolk demo
> - go to [5]
> - look for the [xFolk] icon and click on it
> - look up tags on other services
>
> I guess the other thing I should mention is that I'll probably be  
> depreciating much of the code of this in favour of Mark Pilgrim's  
> scripts for extracting the data, if I ever have free time again.
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
> http://www.blogmatrix.com
>
> [1] http://www.blogmatrix.com/include/microformat-find.user.js
> [2] http://www.ndunn.com/2005/10/7/hCard
> [3] http://we05.com/presenters.cfm
> [4] http://www.blogmatrix.com/company_main/
> [5] http://thecommunityengine.com/home/archives/2005/10/ 
> xfolk_vegomatic.html
>
> Dr.Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> So, I'd like to do a demo for some people at work this Thursday.   
>> The  most interesting thing, I think, would be like what Tantek  
>> did at Web  2.0: running GreaseMonkey scripts against microformats  
>> in a web page,  and generating hCards and hCals to add to  
>> AddressBook/iCal.
>> Since I know nothing about GreaseMonkey, could someone walk me   
>> through the process to:
>> a) find the right scripts
>> b) find a good webpage for testing
>> c) make sure it all works
>> I do at least have GreaseMonkey installed, but I'm not sure I've  
>> got  it working....
>> Thanks,
>> -- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
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