Comments on: The Web Browser as an Information Broker http://unfoldingtheweb.com/2007/01/09/the-web-browser-as-an-information-broker/ A new way of using the web Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: André Luís http://unfoldingtheweb.com/2007/01/09/the-web-browser-as-an-information-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-5 André Luís Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:37:04 +0000 http://unfoldingtheweb.com/2007/01/09/the-web-browser-as-an-information-broker/#comment-5 It would be cool if they would consider implementing a sort of Operator ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ ) into the release version of firefox. A more versatile and customizable version of Operator, ie, not wearing any brand (flickr/technorati/whatever). Microformats are still in their early years... baby steps. It's always nice to allow our users to import vcards using hCard. But as microformats mature, more and more uses will be discovered. More formats created. And if the browser vendors acknowledge them, well, I'm sure the wide audience will begin using them, even if they don't understand the underlying techniques used to achieve that. It would be cool if they would consider implementing a sort of Operator ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ ) into the release version of firefox.

A more versatile and customizable version of Operator, ie, not wearing any brand (flickr/technorati/whatever).

Microformats are still in their early years… baby steps. It’s always nice to allow our users to import vcards using hCard. But as microformats mature, more and more uses will be discovered. More formats created. And if the browser vendors acknowledge them, well, I’m sure the wide audience will begin using them, even if they don’t understand the underlying techniques used to achieve that.

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