As I build projects I often try out new ideas, these sometimes get lost as I move on to other things. Codebits is a place for small snippits of shinny ideas and tests of all things web. I am going to use it to remind myself of how things work,…
As part of the mircoformats meet up in Brighton this week a group of us took some time to discuss the semantic mark-up of forms. This was based on my previous thoughts on the subject. We also look at this issue in light of Tantek’s proposal for the version 2…
The extensions below allow you to copy, store and then later paste contacts into forms. They are proof of concept prototypes taken from a larger project. I have released the extensions now to help inform the discussion at the upcoming mircoformats meetup. You need either Firefox 4.0+ or the latest…
The text below is “hello world” translated into Akkadian written in cuneiform script. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known forms of written expression, created on clay tablets using a blunt reed to create wedge shaped marks. T Q 4 H I while ago Brain Suda did a great little…
The current auto-fill browser extensions use regular expressions or previous user choices to work out how to automatically fill-in common registration forms. What we really need is a way to mark up forms semantically so that we can reliably auto-filled them using user selected structured data. Apart from obvious issues…
Just finished building the draggables library and uploaded it to its own site. Draggables is a JavaScript library that allows users to exchange data between web sites using drag and drop. It’s heavily based on the HTML5 Drag and Drop and File APIs. It allows data to be exchanged between…
A light weight cross browser JavaScript Microformats parser. Browsers should come with APIs to parse semantic content such as microformats, unfortunately this has yet to happen. I have just finished building microformat shiv which provides a simple to use, light-weight, cross-browser microformat API. It even works with modern mobile browsers…
Published: 21 February 2010 10:23 I have added WebFinger support to Ident Engine. You can now enter a Google gmail email address as a starting point for searching someone social graph. This only works for email accounts who’s users have published a public Google profile page. Google’s profile pages are…
I just given a talk at Codebits in Lisbon in which I explore the reuse of social media data using Ident Engine. I walk through how you can combine Google’s Social Graph API date with other open data sources like RSS and Microformats to provide a wealth information about your…
Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We have filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints. Ident Engine site /> A List Apart – Ident Engine The Ident Engine…