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May 13, 2007
Microformat for code?
I have been doing a lot of studying lately to try and sharpen up my OO programming knowledge/skills. I have seen a lot of code examples - some beautifully laid out, some not.
Peeking at the HTML shows even more diversity. Some folks relying on the classic PRE / CODE pairing and others using non-breaking spaces and FONT tags!
I'm not surprised. It's a huge undertaking - probably.
I imagining something that would indent properly, would allow color-coding and all that would certainly provide better accessibility - colon's could be handled by the :after and :before pseudo-selectors - yeah, ideal world and all that. It should probably allow easy transformation from the HTML to a code editor AND allow easy cut and paste.
Something of this complexity would need a little app. to generate the appropriate end result.
Differing coding languages could be a problem but the syntactic sugar such as semi-colons, curly braces, indents etc. could possibly be handled by the CSS.
For example:
public class Exampleclass
{
public Exampleclass()
{
// do some constructor stuff here
}
}
There's a lot going on in just that small example. Even a slightly more complex class would have to include definitions for: fields, properties, methods, events, access modifiers, compiler directives, variable definitions, reserved keywords, built-in functions/methods/properties, etc.. whew!!
There has to be something better than PRE and CODE!
Posted by dottie at May 13, 2007 4:45 PM
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