[uf-dev] JavaScript authoring tools initiative

[Simon Jobling]

What a great idea Drew.

I think the biggest hurdle we've got with Microformats is getting Joe Public
to understand the purpose and get publishing the data in the correct manner.
Unfortunately, the tools we tend to develop for our customers make it
difficult for the users to do so, especially when integrating "rich text
editors" in our web forms.
If we can integrate a plugin which extends frameworks like TinyMCE and the
like, you'll be on to a winner.

It seems the biggest question is how best to offer such
tools. For example, the user will probably be more familiar with the
concept of adding a calendar event or business card so offer those
bundles. This would provoke a dialog box to show the necessary and
optional fields to create the relative Microformats.

I'll be happy to contribute any thoughts to this project but my JS knowledge
probably isn't up to scratch with the rest of the group.

Cheers,
Si
--

Simon Jobling

http://simonjobling.com/
http://twitter.com/si


2009/7/6 Jamie Rumbelow <jamie at jamierumbelow.net>

> 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/
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-dev mailing list
> microformats-dev at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-dev
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-dev mailing list
> microformats-dev at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/attachments/20090706/eeffb7d6/attachment.html