Mike’s Musings

You might have heard from Elias Torres that we have RDFa working in Operator. You might also be wondering where that version is.

Basically I’ve been working very hard to finalize the APIs so that I can get things ready for Firefox 3. You can take a look at them here. The ironic part is that […]

So let’s talk about what Firefox 3 will hopefully offer for developers. The goal is that extension authors will have an API to access microformatted data directly without worrying about parsing. In addition, there will be a model for adding additional microformats, as well as adding semantic actions (more about that in a minute). Here’s […]

I’m now the official owner of microformats support in Firefox 3. Here is the preliminary design document.

At this point, we’ll primarily be focusing on making microformats available to extension developers, with very little UI. The primary motivator behind this is that I don’t think anyone has come up with a good user interface for microformats. […]

Since my original post on setting up a Firefox update server, I realized that some of my information was not correct. This post is to correct that information.

My mistake stemmed from the fact that the format of the Firefox update URL changed between Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.

Here’s the URL for Firefox 1.5:

https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/%PRODUCT%/%VERSION%/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/update.xml

Here’s the URL […]