Operator – Deciding what to do with Operator is difficult. […] That being said, I’m going to do a few fixes for Operator, call it 1.0 and then stop development.

…widmet sich jetzt doch wieder dem de facto (Microformats) Browser Plugin…

The biggest news I have is that I have resumed work on Operator. In particular, I’m fixing bugs, adding a few usability enhancements and adding support for new microformat stuff like the value class/pattern for dates. I’m also considering completely removing the “Actions” toolbar and switching to interacting only with the data. I’m definitely looking for feedback on that one.

Wer Ideen zu neuen Features oder Funktionen hat, kann diese gerne auf Michaels Weblog loswerden.
Mein Wunsch: Microdata support 🙂

(Ich hoffe dass die Angekündigten value-class-pattern Änderungen eventuell auch irgendwann in die native Microformats Firefox API aufgenommen werden.)

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The answer is that there is a microformats API in Firefox 3, but unfortunately there is nothing available in the UI for this release.[…]

The primary reason that microformats aren’t exposed in the Firefox UI is that there was never any agreement as to how to expose them.

Da hatte ich damals ja gar nicht so unrecht:

Ich bin mir nicht 100%ig sicher, aber ich glaub es wird nur eine API für das Parsen von Microformats gestellt, da es das Operator Plugin ja auch für Firefox 3 gibt.
Wie das mit den oben genannten Selektoren aussieht weiß ich auch nicht.

Wer sich für das Thema Firefox, Microformats und die Zukunft von Operator interessiert, sollte sich einfach mal Kaplys kompletten Artikel durchlesen.

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Features von Operator 0.8:

• RDFa support (courtesy of Elias Torres)
• eRDF support (courtesy of Keith Alexander)
• New user interface elements, including an icon on the location bar as well as a sidebar
• New preferences including auto-hiding the toolbar
• The address microformats has been split out so that actions can be more granular
• Actions can now be associated with multiple types of data, so the Google Maps action, for instance, works with Addresses and Locations
• Much better support for frames and iframes
• Support for non HTML documents
• When debugging microformats, Operator connects to Brian Suda’s X2V behind the scenes so you can compare results
• Lots of bug fixes

Außerdem gibt es unter mozillalinks.org ein Interview mit dem Operator Entwickler Michael Kaply über die Microformats implementierung in Firefox 3.

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