Sunday, June 02, 2002

I'm poondering a mozilla sidebar for intelligent quote abstracting from the page your currently. It could work based upon text selection or click (and drag perhaps) and would post the quote to Radio. I could abstract permalinks out of many Radio blogs.  Ideally, this should be done in a more principaled way. My container approach (nested divs) to structural markup in this blog would be much easier to DOM walk than the default Radio html.  Radio's strength in ease of use via content-item level macros is it's downfall for evolution. I'm sure it's actually easy, but it's not clear how to change the permalink macro or write a new one with the same data. Perhaps linked RSS versions are a better place to do post extraction. 10:12:31 PM    comment

There's some serious community impetus behind incoporating the LINK tag for RSS in weblogs. Mozilla has a link toolbar that's not quite complete. Alas, Google did not add the LINK tag to their site during the last 4 or so months of it being deployed in Mozilla -- if it had, the "site navigation bar" as it's called might be in 1.0 (note, next/prev links are in one of the experimental google toolbars). In any event, job well done! In less than a week, support for a new form of metadata was added in a standards aware fashion across hundreds of websites and a handful of publishing/aggregation tools. It will be interesting to see the future push and pull between the practicing community and the w3c's slew of standards. 11:23:10 AM    comment