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For developers, we could have a tool that couples those simple mechanisms for average users with more sophisticated functions for inspecting and manipulating the microsummary generator. For example, we might provide an editable "source" view of the generator. And we might enable more complicated UI gestures for things like anchoring an XPath that retrieves some informatino to a non-root node (f.e. to the node that labels that information, whose relationship to the information is less likely to change over time than the relationship of that information node to the root node).
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| valign="top" | [http://userstyles.org/livetitle User Styles' Live Titles repository]
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| valign="top" | userstyles.org has set up a repository for microsummary generators, which is a great first step in distributing the generators, but it would be much more useful if users didn't have to browse the repository and install a generator to use it on a site.
Imagine an extension (or an enhancement to an extension like [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3639/ Microsummary Buddy] or [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4248/ Microsummary Manager]) that automatically notifies users when a generator is available for a page they're browsing and shows them the microsummary it generates. Then, if users decide they want to use the microrsummary, the extension installs the generator automatically and creates the microsummary-enabled bookmark for the user. And all the user has to do is something simple like clicking on the "microsummary available" notification icon or dragging it to the bookmarks toolbar.
