Operator was an extension for the
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curren ...
web browser.
It
parses and acts upon a number of
microformat
Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup (like HTML classes) created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coor ...
s,
as well as validating them.
Operator lets the user access microformats through a number of methods, all of which are optional: a
toolbar
The toolbar, also called a bar or standard toolbar (originally known as ribbon), is a graphical control element on which on-screen icons can be used. A toolbar often allows for quick access to functions that are commonly used in the program. Some ...
, a toolbar button, a
status bar
A status bar is a graphical control element which poses an information area typically found at the Window (computing), window's bottom.
It can be divided into sections to group information. Its job is primarily to display information about the c ...
icon, a
location bar icon, or a
sidebar.
It has native support for several microformats:
*
adradr spec (postal addresses)
*
hCard
hCard is a microformat for publishing the contact details (which might be no more than the name) of people, companies, organizations, and places, in HTML, Atom, RSS, or arbitrary XML. The hCard microformat does this using a 1:1 representation of v ...
(contact/ address information)
*
hCalendar
hCalendar (short for ''HTML iCalendar'') is a microformat standard for displaying a semantic (X)HTML representation of iCalendar-format calendar information about an event, on web pages, using HTML classes and ''rel'' attributes.
It allows pa ...
(events)
*
Geo (
geographic coordinates
A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude. It is the simplest, oldest, and most widely used type of the various ...
)
*
rel-tag
and is extensible,
in that users can add new actions for the included microformats, or specify additional microformat recognition.
Operator was written by Mike Kaply of
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
.
It forms the basis for Firefox 3's microformats API,
allowing native support, but has no direct user interface, due to lack of consensus on the implementation in the
GUI.
See also
*
List of Firefox extensions
References
External links
Operator at author's blogOperator User ScriptsMozilla add-ons
Free Firefox legacy extensions
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