Comments on: Firefox 3 is here – where’s the microformats? http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/ Discussion, code examples, and tutorials on web standards and web programming. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bookmarks about Microformats http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/comment-page-1/#comment-1934 Bookmarks about Microformats Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:30:28 +0000 http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/?p=16#comment-1934 [...] - bookmarked by 3 members originally found by Astace on 2009-02-12 Firefox 3 is here - where’s the microformats? http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/ - [...] [...] – bookmarked by 3 members originally found by Astace on 2009-02-12 Firefox 3 is here – where’s the microformats? http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/ – [...]

]]> By: MJR's slef-reflections: Firefox 3, day 3: first impressions http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/comment-page-1/#comment-81 MJR's slef-reflections: Firefox 3, day 3: first impressions Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:53 +0000 http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/?p=16#comment-81 [...] Other than that, the main problems with Firefox 3 are omissions rather than bugs. For example, Microformats [Alex Faaborg] support was one of the long-trumpeted new features in Firefox 3, but they're really not obviously included, as noted by others in posts like Firefox 3 is here - where's the microformats? [...] [...] Other than that, the main problems with Firefox 3 are omissions rather than bugs. For example, Microformats [Alex Faaborg] support was one of the long-trumpeted new features in Firefox 3, but they’re really not obviously included, as noted by others in posts like Firefox 3 is here – where’s the microformats? [...]

]]> By: alan http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/comment-page-1/#comment-61 alan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:45:27 +0000 http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/?p=16#comment-61 While I agree that it feels like Firefox dropped the ball, or at least under-delivered on what we were hoping to see in Firefox 3, I agree with what Mike Kaply (creator of Operator plugin) that it is a tough UI problem to solve - how to add either a new sidebar or icon to show us when a page has imbedded microformats, without taking up too much browser real estate or cluttering the interface. I still think that the Firefox team will come up with a compromise (we control sidebars visibility!) that makes everyone happy in an upcoming point release. I don't know much yet about the OpenService solution Microsoft is working on to allow for new services to handle microformats, but if <a href="http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2008/05/22/updating-openservice-for-microformats/" rel="nofollow">Mike Kaply is working with Microsoft</a>, I have to believe its in pretty good hands. While I agree that it feels like Firefox dropped the ball, or at least under-delivered on what we were hoping to see in Firefox 3, I agree with what Mike Kaply (creator of Operator plugin) that it is a tough UI problem to solve – how to add either a new sidebar or icon to show us when a page has imbedded microformats, without taking up too much browser real estate or cluttering the interface. I still think that the Firefox team will come up with a compromise (we control sidebars visibility!) that makes everyone happy in an upcoming point release.

I don’t know much yet about the OpenService solution Microsoft is working on to allow for new services to handle microformats, but if Mike Kaply is working with Microsoft, I have to believe its in pretty good hands.

]]> By: Joe Levi http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Joe Levi Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:44:45 +0000 http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/?p=16#comment-40 The fact that the Firefox team completely dropped the ball on including support for Microformats in FF3 disgusts me. All that's done is emboldened the MSIE team to "do it wrong" in MSIE8... which, unfortunately, they're doing... By "doing it wrong" I mean that they're not even really supporting Microformats per se, rather, "micro formats" of proprietary markup. Guess we should have expected that from Microsoft, but honestly, I thought Firefox was all about the semantic web... - www.JoeLevi.com The fact that the Firefox team completely dropped the ball on including support for Microformats in FF3 disgusts me. All that’s done is emboldened the MSIE team to “do it wrong” in MSIE8… which, unfortunately, they’re doing…

By “doing it wrong” I mean that they’re not even really supporting Microformats per se, rather, “micro formats” of proprietary markup. Guess we should have expected that from Microsoft, but honestly, I thought Firefox was all about the semantic web…

– http://www.JoeLevi.com

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