Microformats in Flock
April 30th, 2006
Evolutions of the Konqueror microformats plug-in in the context of the Flock browser.
Contacts (hCards)
- The browser indicates the presence of hCard markup on a page using an icon in the status bar. The icon provides access to the pop-up menu:
- To allow multiple selection without having to repeatedly open the menu, a dialog allows the user to check individual names:
Contacts Service Preferences
Online Contacts Services
Calendar (hCalendars)
A dialog similar to Add Contacts would facilitate multiple event selections.
Calendar Service Preferences
Obviously, the Default Calendar setting would only work with services that allow multiple calendars.
Online Calendar Services
The Konqueror plug-in currently works with Kontact, the KDE PIM. Along those lines, it would also be nice if browsers could pass hCards and hCalendars to external applications like Address Book/iCal on OS X, Outlook on Windows, and Evolution in GNOME.
You say there is a Microformats plug-in for Konqueror? I have not been able to find it, could you post a link?
I have filed a bug requesting hCard support in Konqueror, and if there already is a plug-in available I should probably close it.
[...] fully aware of microformats and have mocked up of how they could be used to provide similar functionality in Flock. This is a more generalized method that would work with semantically undefined text in any [...]