All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and just plain people showing of little programs they've written. This data is typical acompanied by an author or list of authors, a lisence, the language type and version and various other bits of meta data. This seems to me to be an excelent place for microformats.
First as a way to standardize this collection of metadata which might help decrease the confusion over licensing and various other issues that plague online code examples. Second because this is data that in and of itself does nothing on the web. It has to be downloaded, and run in various other applications to have any use. Standardizing the format would allow for easy download, collection and use of this data. I wrote a little proposal regarding what I see as being a possible schema etc. at http://anders.conbere.org/posts/code-microformat/ I don't have any real experience doing this kind of stuff so I welcome comments, suggestions of criticism. Really I just want to attempt to get discussion started. Thanks, Anders _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
