Microsummaries - who are they?

Let's see, perhaps, the most pernicious position of what's new Firefox2 not so long ago. Microsummary - Live Title - a regularly updated summary of the most important information available on a web page. According to the developers, compact enough to fit into the space reserved for the name of the bookmark, they give out more useful information than static page headers, moreover, they are regularly updated with the latest information. Today, the only browser that supports microsummaries is Firefox (and only version 2 and higher), and the situation on the other side of the client-server model is no better. At the moment, according to Mozilla, the native microsummaries give only 13 sites, in particular:

The blog of one of the leading Firefox developers Aza Dotzler (Asa Dotzler), having several “live headlines” at once CyberNet Technology News ; The Register , etc. In theory, microsummaries can be forcibly generated for any site, here are examples of additional installed generators for Yahoo! Finance, eBay, etc. Firefox developers predict widespread miscrosummaries and promise to significantly expand their functionality in the 3rd version of their browser (for example, support for graphics) that would look something like this:
Maybe someday the UFO will make a “live headline” for Habrakhabr - it can display the name of the top habratopic “on the face”, the last words of the Inner Voice, or, at worst, the gap from “that-that- can't -be-called” I-rating quotes online media. ;)
A reasonable question arises: do we need it? I would venture to suggest that to us , in the current state of affairs, it is unlikely (except as an ascetic replacement for expansions - financial tickers), but not end-user cope with the RSS functionality - quite ... Let's wait for Firefox3, but for now with the hope of using Microsummary Buddy , determining the presence of microsummary on the site!

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/843/