[uf-discuss] Microsummaries in Firefox

[Kevin Marks]

On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Ryan King wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
>> The definition:
>>
>>     A microsummary is a short compilation of the most important
>>     information on a web page, f.e. the ticker symbol and price
>>     for a stock quote page.
>>
>>     TWX: 17.07
>>
>>     A microsummary definition is a simple XML snippet telling
>>     Firefox how to generate a microsummary for a set of pages.
>>
>> The walk-thru: 
>> http://www.melez.com/mozilla/microsummaries/walkthrough.html
>>
>> The proposal: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries
>>
>> I feel like this is a perfect place for microformats -- and not XML. 
>> Anyone
>> have thoughts on this concept?
>
> I think <h*> are good enough.

Or how about hAtom, specifically 
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Summary

(historical note - this is what RSS was originally for - a list of 
links to remote sites with a little extra context - see Slashdot's 
slashboxes for example)