[uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

Sarven Capadisli info at csarven.ca
Wed Jul 21 09:04:42 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 16:33 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:46:08 +0200, Stephen Paul Weber  
> <singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:
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> > Somebody claiming to be Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:47:19 +0200, Scott Reynen
> >> <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Distributed vocabulary development requires a general purpose
> >> >solution.  Microformats don't have that requirement, so
> >> >vocabulary-specific solutions are common.
> >>
> >> Yes, which is why general purpose parsers cannot exist, and why
> >> browser support is unlikely.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure Firefox already supports µfs...
> 
> Are you sure it's not a plugin? If not, I'd be very interested to see it  
> in action.
> 

It has some support. See also resource://gre/modules/Microformats.js and
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_microformats

Probably the best way to see it in action is via JetPack:
https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/

-Sarven




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