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''Discussion document for identifying long-term areas of focus for market research and data collection efforts for Firefox, and short-term identification of target differentiation vectors.'' | ''Discussion document for identifying long-term areas of focus for market research and data collection efforts for Firefox, and short-term identification of target differentiation vectors.'' | ||
'''Microformat Detection and Application Linking''' | '''Microformat Detection and Application/Service Linking''' | ||
* Detecting [http://microformats.org/about/ microformated] information ([http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard hCard], [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar hCalendar], etc.) and linking this information to actions, applications, and services. | |||
* Momentum is growing around microformats, and Mozilla has an opportunity to take a leadership position for the emergence of semantic information on the Web. Yahoo! is starting to [http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2006/06/21/we-now-support-microformats/ support] microformats on the following web properties: | |||
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* [http://local.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Local] fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. | |||
* [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr] supports XFN and hCard on all profile pages, and [http://www.upcoming.org/ Upcoming.org] supports hCalendar. | |||
* [http://tech.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Tech] uses the hReview microformat for all product reviews. | |||
</ul> | |||
* Support for microformats could include the ability to: | |||
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* export microformated content to desktop applications, (see [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2240/ Tails Export]) | |||
* send microformated content to online services (an employee from Upcoming.org modified an open-source Greasemonkey user script to [http://upcoming.org/tools/microformats/ycalhcal.user.js add any hCalendar event to Yahoo! Calendar]) | |||
* or to provide contextual actions for identified content such as generating a new mail message from an hCard link. | |||
</ul> | |||
'''Increase the value and utility of the information individuals encounter and gather while using the Web''' | '''Increase the value and utility of the information individuals encounter and gather while using the Web''' | ||