Operator for Firefox and microform
November 14, 2007 0 comments
In this article, I speak a little about Operator, extension for Firefox that identifies microform on pages and facilitates the interaction of data with some web services.
It is desirable to have a concept of what is microform.
There are about 6 months met the microform; Unfortunately, for various reasons - the largest of them being the "lack of time" - I was unable to get on with my studies and deepen the theme. How, now, I am in a "phase of studies" in my life I decided that one of the items on my list would be the microform. Apart from what is important for a web developer, know what it is and how to apply them to their projects.
The fact that knowledge is a great extension for Firefox, the Operator, which enables its users to enjoy some benefits in web services from microform.
It is this: when you install the extension, a new barrinha appears in Firefox. Here, we found 7 menus, which enable as the page where it is today.

In other words, the options are empowered under the present microform on the page. If, for example, the microformato hCard is implemented, the "Contacts" is active, presenting some subopções that can be chosen.

And the same for each type of microformato implemented. Just to cite some examples, depending on the features microformato are to:
That is, the Operator is a great advance to start, effectively, to explore the potential of microform. She the "takes" to help the one who installed them enjoy more good interactivity with web services, facilitating the work / fun of users.
After all, for this is that the microform serve!
References National
Wiki official
How about starting with the "official"?
Microformats: learn to describe their data
This is a great introduction on microform.
Microformatos for laity
Another good introductory article on microform.
Microformatos
More text explaining what are the microform.
Best sites on microform
List compiled by the staff of neosite.
References International
microformats.org
This is the official site.
Introducing Operator
Only to appear, the Operator is a project of Mozilla Labs. This post explains Operator on the "direct source."
What are microformats?
A presentation made by Tantek Çelik to explain what are the microformats.













