Hi David,
On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:22 PM, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
It's great to know that basic REST support will be in Rails 1.2. I
was wondering whether there's any sort of microformat support that
would be appropriate for core Rails. Thoughts?
Could well be. It needs a ton more real-life usage, though. The REST
support is only going into Rails 1.2 after months and months of
thinking and real usage in the wild. So keep experimenting.
Sure, I presume we'd first want to create a gem or plug-in that
implemented it, so we could test it. I'm still trying to figure out
what kind of experiments are worth doing...
The one thing I've been wondering about is whether there should be an
easier/more automatic way of adding class names to HTML. For example,
one brute-force approach would be to have the default (scaffold)
templates automatically insert the column name as the 'class'
attribute for a given output field. In cases where the schema was
chosen to explicitly 1-1 correspond to microformat names, that would
give a certain amount of automatic conformance 'out of the box'.
However, I don't know whether:
a) Those scaffolds/templates are much use in real-world Rails
development
b) That sort of 1-1 mapping is very useful for real-world microformat
deployments
Similarly, is there any value in adding datatype support to Rails
output?
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes
Feedback and brainstorming welcome...
-- Ernie P.
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