Re: Creating API pages

Thanks Dave! Be sure to share any issues you encounter on this thread.
+Scott



On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, David Gash <dgash@google.com> wrote:

> Scott / all,
>
> I'm starting to document the web audio API. Based on Scott's proposal doc
> and the W3C specs, the first few topics' URLs will be structured thus:
>
> apis/webaudio
>
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/properties/destination
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/properties/sampleRate
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/properties/currentTime
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/properties/listener
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/properties/activeSourceCount
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/methods/createBuffer
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/methods/decodeAudioData
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/methods/createBufferSource
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioContext/methods/. . . etc.
>
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioNode/properties/context
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioNode/properties/numberOfInputs
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioNode/properties/numberOfOutputs
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioNode/methods/connect
> apis/webaudio/objects/AudioNode/methods/disconnect
>
> apis/webaudio/objects/. . . etc.
>
> There are a lot more objects, properties, and methods in this API, of
> course, but Scott has reviewed this plan and, barring any objections,
> that's the path structure I'll be following.
>
> I plan to outline the entire set before creating any pages, then create
> all the stubs, then go back and fill in.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com> wrote:
>
>> When I sat down to document the process for creating API pages, using the
>> WebRTC documentation as the poster child, I found more questions than
>> answers. I realized that we did not have a good story here, so I did my
>> best to fill in the holes with a methodology that attempts to solve the
>> problems I found.
>>
>> You find this methodology described in WPD:Creating_API_pages<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Creating_API_pages>
>> .
>>
>> Note that it started out as a how-to for contributors, but quickly became
>> a proposal. So parts of it will read either way. Don't be alarmed. The
>> purpose of the document is to provide you with a methodology to try on as
>> you do what I did - test it out with your own API pages.
>>
>> As you do, please don't update the methodology in that page - let's
>> discuss it first. We can use this thread for the discussion.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> +Scott
>>
>>
>