Month: December, 2006

Adding new microformats to Operator

23 December, 2006 (10:10) | firefox, microformats, operator | 3 comments

In this post, I’m going to talk about adding a new microformat to Operator. We’re going to add partial support for hResume. In the process, you’ll learn some of the APIs that are available to you in the Microformats class.
The APIs in the Microformats class can be divided into three types:

APIs to help create a […]

Live Clipboard in Operator

18 December, 2006 (14:09) | live-clipboard, firefox, microformats, operator | No comments

So this post Interesting Developments with Microformats from Mozilla and Microsoft at wizardishungryblog brings up the Live Clipboard support in Operator. I thought I would use this post to talk a little about Live Clipboard - what it is and why it is in Operator.
For those that don’t know, at its core, Live Clipboard is an XML […]

Operator Architecture

17 December, 2006 (10:38) | firefox, microformats, operator | 1 comment

With this post, I’m going to go into more detail about the architecture of Operator. To start out, we need to get on the same page with regards to terminology.
Handlers:
In the context of Operator each microformat has handlers associated with it. These handlers are the connections to various services. For instance, the tag microformat has […]

Adding handlers to Operator

7 December, 2006 (09:54) | firefox, microformats, operator | 5 comments

Over at labs.mozilla.com you’ll see the announcement of a microformats extension I created called Operator. I figured the release of this extension was a good reason for me to start blogging again, since people have questions and comments about the extension. So that’s what I’ll be doing here.
So far, the response has been great. Here […]