On 1/24/07, Colin Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:30 PM, anders conbere wrote:
> 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/
The first step is not to write a schema but to create a wiki page
documenting existing examples of pages. Microformats is about paving
the cow paths, so one of the major inputs in our design process is
seeing what's already out there.
Right, if you look at that link, I just picked a few largish sites
that already include chunks of metadata in the document with inline
code. What I didn't want to do was post a 4 page document to the
mailing list detailing everything I've been looking at. But rather
keep things short here, and offer people who were interested somewhere
to look at what I was proposing.
I would recommend looking at various pastebin websites and some
programming oriented blogs. Something else you might want to also
consider looking at is lxr (there's an install for mozilla at
lxr.mozilla.org).
Similarly Track with projects like Django or Ruby On Rails, as well as
sites like W3schools.
> 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.
The best way to do that is to create the brainstorming pages and do
the leg work there. Once you have numerous examples, the process of
figuring out what's common and what's not can begin. Finding examples
in the wild is the most important step!
Yup! The wiki says to start here though, I didn't want to go around
making wiki pages without following the instructions. If people think
it's alright I would love to move what I already have to the wiki and
start looking for distinct examples of how this sort of things is
already being applied.
Hope that helps,
-Colin
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