[uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

[Angelo Gladding]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:04:42 +0200, Sarven Capadisli <info at csarven.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> 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/
>
> Thanks, that's pretty cool. However, I note that this is only loaded on
> demand. Looking for e.g. hcards on every page parsed is not quite the same
> thing, and is what you'd need to do to have a button similar to the orange
> "feed" button pop up for all pages where there's something to add to the
> address book or calendar.
>

Firefox's Operator Plugin [1] has sniffed the microformats of each and every
document that I have opened on multiple computers (ranging from slow to fast)
for several years now. Make sure to install appropriate user scripts [2].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106/
[2]: http://kaply.com/weblog/operator-user-scripts/

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Angelo Gladding
angelo at gladding.name