Comments on: An RDFa extension for Dreamweaver http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/03/10/an-rdfa-extension-for-dreamweaver/ Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Martin McEvoy http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/03/10/an-rdfa-extension-for-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-5685 Martin McEvoy Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:30:54 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2261#comment-5685 "It would be helpful if you mentioned that the tag libraries are in the Edit menu in the little blurb" I will make the above point clearer as soon as I can Thank you “It would be helpful if you mentioned that the tag libraries are in the Edit menu in the little blurb”

I will make the above point clearer as soon as I can

Thank you

]]> By: vdebolt http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/03/10/an-rdfa-extension-for-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-5684 vdebolt Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:50:58 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2261#comment-5684 Martin, thank you for stepping in with that explanation. It would be helpful if you mentioned that the tag libraries are in the Edit menu in the little blurb that appears when you install the extension. Knowing how to access it is a big help to making it "Dreamweaver friendly" for the average user. A primer would be wonderful. It might make a good topic for an article at Adobe's Dreamweaver Developer Center, too. At the microformats panel at SXSW this year, it was a comment that microformats can handle 80% of the need for extra formatting of data, but RDFa is a good option for the other more specialized 20% of data description that a person might want to use. Martin, thank you for stepping in with that explanation. It would be helpful if you mentioned that the tag libraries are in the Edit menu in the little blurb that appears when you install the extension. Knowing how to access it is a big help to making it “Dreamweaver friendly” for the average user.

A primer would be wonderful. It might make a good topic for an article at Adobe’s Dreamweaver Developer Center, too.

At the microformats panel at SXSW this year, it was a comment that microformats can handle 80% of the need for extra formatting of data, but RDFa is a good option for the other more specialized 20% of data description that a person might want to use.

]]> By: Martin McEvoy http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/03/10/an-rdfa-extension-for-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-5683 Martin McEvoy Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:59:58 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2261#comment-5683 Hi Virginia, I'm sorry the extension hasn't worked out for you, that being said on the whole the extension has been well received. I have taken your issue's very seriously however and hope to resolve them (just a little) in the next release. I will answer your main concern "where is that tag library", Its there, Its the HTML tag Library but with RDFa properties too, If you go to edit => Tag Libraries, HTML tags, and expand one of the elements you can see all the "extra" RDFa attributes. The Tag Library did at one point during development also support inserting a tag via the UI, Insert => Tag, but I chose for now not to include it because it wasn't really intuitive enough, it had a long list of white boxes where an author still had to insert RDFa by hand, so all you get at the moment is to insert RDFa a code level with a predictive text drop down list which I think is better because new RDFa authors *do* have to understand RDFa at code level first. The next planned release will go a little further, I will include the RDFa Primer in the DW Reference library to help new authors get going with RDFa, and also perhaps a dozen or more useful snippets of RDFa that an author can insert at will and just modify the example with their own information. If you have any comments, input, suggestions even criticism please feel free to email me. Best Wishes Hi Virginia, I’m sorry the extension hasn’t worked out for you, that being said on the whole the extension has been well received. I have taken your issue’s very seriously however and hope to resolve them (just a little) in the next release.

I will answer your main concern “where is that tag library”, Its there, Its the HTML tag Library but with RDFa properties too, If you go to edit => Tag Libraries, HTML tags, and expand one of the elements you can see all the “extra” RDFa attributes.

The Tag Library did at one point during development also support inserting a tag via the UI, Insert => Tag, but I chose for now not to include it because it wasn’t really intuitive enough, it had a long list of white boxes where an author still had to insert RDFa by hand, so all you get at the moment is to insert RDFa a code level with a predictive text drop down list which I think is better because new RDFa authors *do* have to understand RDFa at code level first.

The next planned release will go a little further, I will include the RDFa Primer in the DW Reference library to help new authors get going with RDFa, and also perhaps a dozen or more useful snippets of RDFa that an author can insert at will and just modify the example with their own information.

If you have any comments, input, suggestions even criticism please feel free to email me.

Best Wishes

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