- From: Shane Hudson <Shane@shanehudson.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 21:42:59 +0000
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>, Social Web Working Group <public-socialweb@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CANYFvNPYNYKyoic8GGwEofR5rpFdYz2Z5SGE1sLipAv0qy_+1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Sure, but it puts a lot of people off. In the same way the old HTML doctype was scary, despite it actually not being required to understand it. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 3 November 2015 at 18:20, Shane Hudson <Shane@shanehudson.net> wrote: > >> I really like the way you've made it accessible without requiring >> knowledge of JSON-LD unless the user wants to use it, I think it will help >> a lot of people. >> > > Knowledge of JSON LD isnt required to use it. It's a bit like knowledge > of the DOM isnt required to use jquery. All LD means is tying key value > pairs to a subject, in a way that is webby That is to say, in a way that > encourages use of URLs. > > >> >> Thanks for your hard work! >> Shane >> >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Christopher Allan Webber < >> cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello all! >>> >>> So I haven't been participating in the conversations on-list (even >>> though I have strong opinions) lately, because I've been hacking like >>> mad to get out the first release of Activipy, v0.1! >>> >>> http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >>> https://github.com/w3c-social/activipy >>> >>> Some things I think are interesting about Activipy: >>> - It wraps ActivityStreams documents in pythonic style objects >>> >>> - Has a nice and extensible method dispatch system that even works well >>> with ActivityStreams/json-ld's composite types. >>> >>> - It has an "Environment" feature: different applications might need >>> to represent different vocabularies or extensions, and also might >>> need to hook up entirely different sets of objects. >>> >>> - It hits a good middle ground in keeping things simple, until you need >>> complexity. Everything's "just json", until you need to get into >>> extension-land, in which case json-ld features are introduced. >>> (Under the hood, that's always been there, but users don't >>> necessarily need to understand json-ld to work with it.) >>> >>> - Good docs! I think! Or I worked really hard on them, at least! >>> >>> The docs, I think, are a good guide into how to get up and running >>> with ActivityStreams and make it useful for your application: >>> >>> http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >>> >>> Please do read, try it out, and give feedback! >>> >>> Happy hacking, >>> - Chris >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Shane Hudson (Website Developer - www.ShaneHudson.net >> <http://www.shanehudson.net/>) >> >> 07794746595 >> >> @ShaneHudson <https://twitter.com/#!/ShaneHudson> / +Shane Hudson >> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/110111510059204475260> >> >> > -- ------------------------------ Shane Hudson (Website Developer - www.ShaneHudson.net <http://www.shanehudson.net/>) 07794746595 @ShaneHudson <https://twitter.com/#!/ShaneHudson> / +Shane Hudson <https://plus.google.com/u/0/110111510059204475260>
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