[Rhaptos] Using HTML5 Microdata Formats for New Editor

[J. Cameron Cooper]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ed Woodward <ecw1 at rice.edu> wrote:

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> We have been discussing the possibility of using HTML5 Microdata formats
> to document elements in a new WYSIWYG Editor for CNXML.  I've done a
> conversion of 9 elements in CNXML that do not map directly to an HTML
> element.  You can view the document at
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vVCMv7rsbO5NHpnUkVxomwvDc13budL4JGPhZv5DGo4/edit
> .
> I've placed the CNXML first followed by the conversion to HTML5 Microdata.
>
> I would like to get some feedback from the community about using
> microdata in the editor.  The microdata would be converted to CNXML at
> some point (when saving?) and CNXML converted to microdata (checking out
> existing module?).  The main usage would be for elements that do not map
> directly to existing HTML elements.  You can see a list of those
> elements at
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArvuSYeGW6GpdGVzX0NhZUo1VUN5eGFPVks5THN5YlE&hl=en_US#gid=3
>
> The spec for HTML 5 Microdata is at http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
>
> This Wikipedia article has a nice summary:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML)


It seems like the right thing to use, but it seems like support in tools is
rather short. On one hand, it is still draft; on the other, it's been
around for a few years.

Does TinyMCE or one of its friends support reading and/or writing
microdata? Since apparently only Opera 11 understands it natively, that
seems unlikely.

Banging it into place with classes would be less elegant but would
certainly work.

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