More progress on microformats in knotes blog entries

25-March-2006

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Steve has made a lot of progress towards embedding microformats and structured blogging content into knotes weblog entries. He now has "objectless" initial editing working, and has hreview as well as event and is almost finished a special format of our own for google-video content.

I wrote the other day about progress towards microformats and structured-blogging support in knotes:

Steve has the Event microformat type working in a test installation now. Another few days should see tests within our main knotes production version. Other special types should be coming thick and fast after that, some of them for very special uses such as within learners' eportfolios, some of more general use. Exciting developments!

KNotations | Microformat for 'event' working in tests

More progress to report. The editing interfaces and scripts have matured - for instance objectless-editing is now possible (so that users can safely and swiftly invoke the editor formlets and then change their minds) and Steve has a generic macro-based way to creating the formlets. New formats are also supported in his tests: hreview, and our own google-video-clip format (we have clients who are putting workplace-learning video clips into google-video and we want to make it easy to embed the information and players for these in our own content).

This development strand is especially important for our planned e-portfolio work, and for anyone wanting to make it easy to add special kinds of structured content in their weblogs. Watch this space for more progress reports.


Mike Malloch; 25-March-2006 06:11:06; forum (0) help

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