Microformats and Firefox 3
2. January 2007 – 21:46 byToday Read/Write Web referred to a series of four excellent articles on microformats and how structured information can be managed by a browser like Firefox by Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg.
Alex starts off explaining microformats and linking to wikis and tutorials on Microformats.org, then describes various other types of structured data that can be found on the net (eg. RSS and iCal).
In part three of the article series he draws a very appealing picture of the browser becoming an Information Broker that is more than just a HTML rendering tool but rather actively manages various microformats and directs them to the appropriate applications, either online or offline. Finally he introduces readers to the Operator add-on for Firefox which I have covered here.
I highly recommend Alex’s articles as they impressively illustrate how web browsers are becoming core applications for managing data in the future. Just imagine which data people already store on the web. From contacts to schedules to locations. I am looking forward to the new browser generation.
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