<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Drew,<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Jamie </div><div><br></div><div><div>Jamie Rumbelow <b>developer/writer/speaker</b></div><div>+44 (0)7956 363875 <a href="mailto:jamie@jamierumbelow.net">jamie@jamierumbelow.net</a></div></div><div><br><div><div>On 6 Jul 2009, at 22:00, Drew McLellan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all<br><br>Quite some time back, I authored a set of Dreamweaver extensions<br>(which are mostly JavaScript with HTML/CSS front end) for doing some<br>basic microformats authoring. They were well received, although they<br>could use a refresh before too long.<br><br>Yesterday, Brian Suda pinged me with the idea of porting the<br>functionality to TinyMCE plugins. TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG editor that can<br>be extended with JavaScript w/ HTML/CSS front ends. From recent<br>experience working with WYSIWYG editors for another project, it seems<br>a lot of these editors work the same way.<br><br>The APIs are going to be different between all these uses, but so much<br>of the hard work with user interfaces and core JavaScript is going to<br>be shared.<br><br>I figured it might be a good idea to formally put together an initiative to:<br><br>a) develop some core JavaScript routines for gathering and publishing<br>microformats<br>b) design and build out good quality user interfaces to front the code<br>c) look at actually implementing that as plugins for common tools<br><br>I could seed the project with the DW extensions I've already written<br>and we could go from there.<br><br>Is anyone working on anything like this at the moment?<br><br>If I were to get the ball rolling, would anyone be interested in<br>helping out? We'd need a mix of code and UX design skills.<br><br>drew.<br><br>-- <br>Drew McLellan<br><a href="http://allinthehead.com/">http://allinthehead.com/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>microformats-dev mailing list<br>microformats-dev@microformats.org<br>http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-dev</div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><br></div></body></html>