> Alex Faaborg wrote a clever mail about this earlier and
> presented a few issues and a few possibilites related
to
> protocols. It was then discussed that perhaps there
should be
> one protocl for each microformat?
> That would if so enable different programs to easily
take
> care of different microformats.
>
> You'll find Faaborg's mail here (is this the usual way
to
> share an older mail on a mailing list or how is more
common?):
> http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-
discuss/2007
> -August/010536.html
Yes, apologies, I do lurk on this list, but sometimes it is
just too
overwhelming so sit back and watch. Am up for posting today,
so probably
repeating whats been said before.
Just browsed the archives a bit and quite like Scott's
approach of <ul
class="user-actions"><li><a
href="h
ttp://mozilla.org/add_to_address_book">...
Instead of a protocol, FF could intercept this url. Rather
than opening
up a webpage, it carries out the action. It degrades better
so that
FF2/IE/Safari users are directed to an actual page
describing
microformats in Firefox 3 rather than receiving an unknown
protocol
error. Easy to add plugins/extensions to these other
browsers to
intercept the url as well.
One might want to use a browser agnostic url though.
So FF3 intercepts the url click of an href of
http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-address-book,
stops the
propogation if appropriate, grabs the q param, looks for the
parent
container and adds it to the addressbook. Other browsers
will be
directed and get to read a nice page describing hcards and
how you can
add them to an address book as vcards using FF3/IE with this
plugin/FF2
with Operator 0.9/Safari with that plugin if ever Apple
create a decent
plugin architecture etc.
If not in the parent hcard container, add another param for
the hcard
id, this would allow you to put actions anywhere on your
page and FF can
assess the url to say, ok, this is a uF action, you want to
add to the
address book, and it is that hcard, ok.
http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-ad
dress-book&id=hcard-id
http://actions.microformats.org?q=map-address&i
d=hcard-id
http://actions.microformats.org?q=add-to-calenda
r&id=hcal-id
Similar to the way RSS feeds are handled in FF2/3 by
choosing live
boookmark, google reader, bloglines etc, a pref pane decides
what
happens, is it added to thunderbird contacts, some address
book website
etc
That's enough repeating from me today.
T.
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