Here is walk-through on making them. And
here is the mozilla site about them.
Cool, I just played with this, and I made a simple little microsummary!
It displays the current top clan on CB. This rocks!!
Check it out
here.
Miandrital
October 30 2006 4:52 PM EST
You are having way too much fun with this stuff :P
Hey, I'm trying to find something to do, shush!
QBsutekh137
October 30 2006 4:54 PM EST
NOTE: This requires Firefox 2.0 *smile*
Gotta love easy-to-use dynamic content...
Could you make a generator for current BA? What elements can be gathered into the microsummary (too lazy to read) *smile* A microsummary of how much BA has accrued would rock my pants.
th00p
October 30 2006 4:58 PM EST
*ALERT*: You have accrued over 140 BA! Get your tail to CB quick before time runs out!
hehehe
D'oh, can't get the current BA. Unfortunately the current BA is generated on the "home" page and Firefox microsummaries don't play well with redirects like that.
bartjan
October 30 2006 5:39 PM EST
How frequently are those updated? How much extra traffic does this cause?
I'm not sure bartjan, none of the dox I've read say anything about the update frequency, I wonder if the XML lets you specify the update time? Hmm, anyways, too bad I can't pull the current BA :(
Maelstrom
October 30 2006 8:19 PM EST
So each user has to manually install the code to add each microsummary to each page? Might be neat, but sounds like WAY too much trouble to me. Can't it be automated on the server side, so that when you bookmark a page, you have the option to use the microsummary?
I think you can Maelstrom, I read on the page that you can. But I'm not sure if you can do it by default, I think you might have to "install" them first, but I did read something about sites having a way to set them up so bookmarks automatically do that.
Maelstrom
October 30 2006 8:48 PM EST
Yeah, I saw that. Guess it'll take a little while for sites to get with it ;)
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