[uf-dev] JavaScript authoring tools initiative

[David Janes]

I actually made a substantial amount of progress toward something like
this this last year. My intention was to write a system that

* replaced the microformat creator apps
* wordpress plug (i.e TinyMCE)
* can look up information in databases before hitting a form
* everything is flexible as possible, configuration wise
* multiple outputs from the same form

The demo I made has

* TinyMCE plugins
* fully open source
* written Python
* forms are based on InputEX
* templates (for final presentation) based on trimpath

I stopped working on this last year because

* I wanted to really improve the way information gets looked up from
APIs - I've made substantial progress on this, but it's not really
integrated into this demo
* I wanted to write Django for Javascript; this I haven't done, so
Trimpath it is

Here's the demo:
http://code.davidjanes.com/genx/demo/tinymce/

Note:

* the hcard lookup is looking on Tantek's home page & my twitter page
for hcards with a title matching whatever you enter - try "t",
"tantek", "david" or whatever
* "Simple" at the last step outputs a link; "Gencard" a whole div --
this is all based on flexible templates

If people are really interested, I can start explaining how to work with this.