Development talk:Text formats
Some points:
A- Fix places without "format"
a) inline format info (like trusttest -> Sam)- b) add formatxxx fields in all missing places. Naming schema "xxxformat" (exam. "descriptionformat").
- - db new fields.
- - upgrade
- - forms modification (combined element)
- - backup & restore
- - Need conversion to HTML format (always enabled plugin) from all formats
- - convert all the old format fields to use the new naming schema.
- - backup and restore
- - forms modification
B- Make them modular (pluggable. OOP) (lib/format and lib/formatlib.php, get_format()->do_stuff())
C- Enable at site/course levels?
D- Upgrade to detect formats should be clever (and will be heavy!)
E- Editors "attached" to formats.
F- Can have "special" editors for other formats.
G- 1 user preference (format & editor) plus 1 preference to "disable editor"
H- Wiki format (mediawiki). Coming from nwiki hopefully.
I - Conflicts between formats and some filters sharing same syntax:
- a) make filters to use prefixes and allow them to be automatically informed to the formats. Complex.
- b) Use some alternate syntax (a safe one)
J- Filters: Any relation with formats? Enable/disable them by format?
K - Offtopic: Posibility to enable/disable filters by context.
L - Is a format the same than a parser (in nwiki slang)
--Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 03:29, 15 October 2008 (CDT)