I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of source code being published online and the ways they do that.
http://microformats.org/wiki/code-examples I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple of days. ~ Anders On 1/25/07, anders conbere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >
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