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Firefox has some microformats parsing support in the Toolkit "product", microformats "component": | Firefox has some microformats parsing support in the Toolkit "product", microformats "component": | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=11720648&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Microformats&product=Toolkit open bugs for Firefox microformats support] | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=11720648&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Microformats&product=Toolkit open bugs for Firefox microformats support] | ||
In addition there is active in-progress work to land [[microformats2-parsing]] support to support [[Social API]] use-cases: | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037483 1037483 - update firefox microformats parser with microformats2 support] - in progress | |||
== Use Cases == | == Use Cases == | ||
Enhance existing Firefox features: | |||
* Firefox '''Share''' (airplane) button in toolbar | * Firefox '''Share''' (airplane) button in toolbar | ||
* Social Bookmarking: Microformats can be passed to bookmarking, read-it-later, etc. style services like [https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins_overview/ Pinterest's "rich pinning"] of objects in the page. | * Social Bookmarking: Microformats can be passed to bookmarking, read-it-later, etc. style services like [https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins_overview/ Pinterest's "rich pinning"] of objects in the page. | ||
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** [[h-event]] for "Add to Calendar" | ** [[h-event]] for "Add to Calendar" | ||
** [[h-adr]] & [[h-geo]] for "View in Map" | ** [[h-adr]] & [[h-geo]] for "View in Map" | ||
* Live Bookmarks / RSS Discovery and Preview (would enable [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543630 Bug 543630]) | |||
Support new planned Firefox OS features: | |||
* '''FirefoxOS ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]])''' | |||
Future / potential features: | |||
* Shopping: Microformats such as [[h-review]], [[h-product]], and [[h-listing]] support rich markup of products, useful in shopping carts, watching products for updates, product comparison shopping, etc. | * Shopping: Microformats such as [[h-review]], [[h-product]], and [[h-listing]] support rich markup of products, useful in shopping carts, watching products for updates, product comparison shopping, etc. | ||
* Automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces. | * Automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces. | ||
== Benefits == | == Benefits == | ||
Latest revision as of 19:59, 9 December 2015
Microformats are an HTML standard that express people, events, reviews, recipes, datestamped content, and other structured data in web pages in a way that makes them easily usable by web browser, search engines, and other web crawlers.
Web browsers in particular are able to associate the data with particular actions and provide a richer user experience for pages marked up with microformats.
Common Microformats
- h-card - people and organizations
- h-event - events
- h-review - reviews of places, people, events, products, etc.
- h-entry - blog posts, status updates, and any kind of episodic content
- h-adr - structured addresses
- h-geo - latitude/longitude geolocations
- see http://microformats.org/wiki/ for more.
Projects
Platform
Firefox has some microformats parsing support in the Toolkit "product", microformats "component":
In addition there is active in-progress work to land microformats2-parsing support to support Social API use-cases:
Use Cases
Enhance existing Firefox features:
- Firefox Share (airplane) button in toolbar
- Social Bookmarking: Microformats can be passed to bookmarking, read-it-later, etc. style services like Pinterest's "rich pinning" of objects in the page.
- Context Menu: right-click on microformats such as
- Live Bookmarks / RSS Discovery and Preview (would enable Bug 543630)
Support new planned Firefox OS features:
- FirefoxOS (Gaia/System/Microformats)
Future / potential features:
- Shopping: Microformats such as h-review, h-product, and h-listing support rich markup of products, useful in shopping carts, watching products for updates, product comparison shopping, etc.
- Automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces.
Benefits
- Better control by content producers
- Easy manipulation of data by clients without server side involvement
- Accurate data collection by services
Firefox 3 Implementation
Firefox Implementation Introduction
For background information on microformat detection, please see this series of blog posts by Alex Faaborg:
- Part 0: Introduction
- Part 1: Structured Data Chaos
- Part 2: The Fundamental Types
- Part 3: Introducing Operator
- Part 4: The User Interface of Microformat Detection
User Experience
- Brainstorming page about the user experience of microformat detection, please feel free to contribute any design work, or to comment on these conceptual mockups.
- Information about about the user interface of microformat detection can also be found on the microformats.org wiki
Firefox 3
Implementation
Michael Kaply worked on the microformats implementation in Firefox 3. There is some overlap with the content handling work being done by Dan Mosedale, and Alex Faaborg is working on the user interface.
Module
microformats is implemented in a module in Firefox.