Placelessness and the Advance of Micropublishing

Placelessness And the Advance of Micropublishing Alex Faaborg Mozilla Corporation

mozilla Labs The mockups shown in this presentation are not necessarily planned features for Firefox 3

However These are topics we are spending a lot of time thinking about / designing / prototyping / hacking / testing / rethinking / iterating on

This presentation will answer 4 questions

1) What are microformats?

2) Why does Mozilla care about microformats?

3) What does a microformat-aware Web browser look like?

4) Why should Web sites expose their content using microformats?

1) What are microformats? ... and why are we talking about this in a session about Design and User Experience?

Technologies like microformats are fundamental to Human Computer Interaction

Information Human Machine Readable Readable

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What are microformats? ... a way to create information that is both human and machine readable

What are microformats? ...they give humans and computers a common ground for discussing information

Information like: Contacts - hCard Calendar Events - hCalendar Locations - geo, adr Tags - rel-tag Spam URLs - rel-nofollow Relationships - XFN Reviews - hReview Resumes - hResume Feeds - hAtom Licenses - rel-license Voting on Links - VoteLinks ↓ A whole lot more

Ways to learn more about microformats: microformats.org Ask a question, get a book Tuesday, 1:30 In 2003 Wednesday, 4:30 In 2008

2) Why does Mozilla care about microformats?

The evolution of the Web browser...

1993 Web Browser as Book C Photo by Derbeth (Flickr)

2005 Web Browser as Radio C Photo by Darius Capulet (Flickr)

2008 Web Browser as Switchboard C Photo by Neil Rickards (Flickr)

1993 2005 2008 Book Radio Switchboard Bookmarks Live Bookmarks Microformat Detection Back and Next RSS Reader Integration Application Integration You ﬁnd the You subscribe to the You move the information information information around

Multiple types of information Not hard wired: the user is in control of the associations C Photo by Neil Rickards (Flickr)

At each stage the Web browser has been trying to keep up with the evolution of the Web

The same thing is happening now for other types of structured data

There are a lot of microformats, which ones should a web browser natively support?

hCard geo, adr hCalendar

These three types of information are fundamental

People exist in space and time

exist in and

Space and Time also map to common representations of information

The Web + Further customization provided by the extension development community. The Web New Microformats

please don’t hurt the web use open standards

3) What does a microformat-aware Web browser look like?

Demo: How can microformats help you get a beer, tonight

Created by Mike Kaply, IBM Try it out: labs.mozilla.com

History

Bookmarks

Should Firefox display detected microformats in the content area?

Modal interfaces suck

Don’t change the content area!

Microformat creation?

4) Why should Web sites expose their content using microformats?

please don’t hurt the web use open standards 1

3 C Photo by Orin Optiglot (Flickr)

This presentation was based on work by: Tanktek Çelik Ray Ozzie Michael Kaply Chris Messina Wolfgang Bartelme John Allsopp Mike Beltzner Mike Shaver John Lilly Basil Hashem Questions... Sean Martell Sherman Dickman Seth Spitzer faaborg@mozilla.com C Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 blogs.mozilla.com/faaborg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ labs.mozilla.com

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