[uf-dev] JavaScript authoring tools initiative

[Jamie Rumbelow]

Drew,

Interesting idea - how would this work, technically? Would it be a  
TinyMCE specific API that effectively adds a "Microformat" button to  
the interface, or a more agnostic, abstracted API that handles more  
low-level Microformat implementation?

As I said before, this sounds very interesting and I'd love to help  
out, but it'd be good to see how you envision this - and what I can  
bring to the table!

Jamie

Jamie Rumbelow developer/writer/speaker
+44 (0)7956 363875 jamie at jamierumbelow.net

On 6 Jul 2009, at 22:00, Drew McLellan wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Quite some time back, I authored a set of Dreamweaver extensions
> (which are mostly JavaScript with HTML/CSS front end) for doing some
> basic microformats authoring. They were well received, although they
> could use a refresh before too long.
>
> Yesterday, Brian Suda pinged me with the idea of porting the
> functionality to TinyMCE plugins. TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG editor that can
> be extended with JavaScript w/ HTML/CSS front ends. From recent
> experience working with WYSIWYG editors for another project, it seems
> a lot of these editors work the same way.
>
> The APIs are going to be different between all these uses, but so much
> of the hard work with user interfaces and core JavaScript is going to
> be shared.
>
> I figured it might be a good idea to formally put together an  
> initiative to:
>
> a) develop some core JavaScript routines for gathering and publishing
> microformats
> b) design and build out good quality user interfaces to front the code
> c) look at actually implementing that as plugins for common tools
>
> I could seed the project with the DW extensions I've already written
> and we could go from there.
>
> Is anyone working on anything like this at the moment?
>
> If I were to get the ball rolling, would anyone be interested in
> helping out? We'd need a mix of code and UX design skills.
>
> drew.
>
> -- 
> Drew McLellan
> http://allinthehead.com/
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