Hello Operator
| Friday, January 26th, 2007 | --jr |
Ok, I'm a geek. I get the reason that things like microformats are spiffy, but to 99% of the planet, they don't understand. I mean, sure, we go through the trouble of marking the page code with stuff, but it's not like you can actually use any of it.
Well, actually, yes you can.
Thanks to Good Mr. Kaply's Firefox Add-On "Operator", you can use this information.
Operator scans the loaded page looking for micro-format information, and presents smart links in the toolbar for how you can use it. Find a hCard address on Yahoo! Local? Map it to Yahoo! Maps (ok, we already do that, but you could look it up using Google or add it to your address book). Find a hCalendar tag (like we have sprinkled all over Upcoming.org), toss it to your calendar program of choice.
Operator is about taking data and using it the way you want to, and that's pretty darn cool.