[uf-discuss] microformats for normal people, like my mum

[Frances Berriman]

On 28/06/07, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Alex Faaborg <faaborg at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> > Right, we need a general user facing way of describing microformat
> > detection, in order to describe the various applications (like Web
> > browsers, feed readers and extensions like Operator) that let the
> > user take actions on microformatted content.  For instance, this
> > description would finish the sentence "features of Firefox 3 include
> > support for offline Web applications, private browsing, blocking
> > malware, and __[user facing way of saying microformat detection]__"
> >
> > ...data detection?
> > ...semantic browsing?
> > ...data browsing?
> > ...semantic data detection?
> > ...semantic data browsing?
> > ...semantic data navigating?
> >
> > If Operator and Firefox 3 are in a category of uF enabled
> > applications, what should that category of applications be called?
> > Or another way of putting it:
> >
> > Feed Readers :: RSS
> > ______ :: microformats
> >
>
> Live Data [1]? Already used...
> Wired Web
> Wire Page?
> Dynamic Pages?
> Dynamic Data?
> Smart Page (not bad, riffing off Smart Tags)
>
> Applications add "Reader" (like Feed Reader) or "Processor" (like Word
> Processor) or "Importer" (like address book, and actually describes
> what is happening) or "Appliance"
>
> Hmmm ... Smart Page Reader ...

Personally, Smart Page and Reader bothers me the least.

How did the term "Feed Reader" turn up?  As is the microformats
principle, perhaps we should see what turns up naturally in the wild
as the way people describe such pages and go with that as a guide.


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Frances Berriman
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