Re: Creating API pages

Awesome! Before you do *too *much work, I think it makes sense to discuss
this proposal at the Content Architecture call (which, if I recall
correctly, is tomorrow).

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dave! Be sure to share any issues you encounter on this thread.
> +Scott
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, David Gash <dgash@google.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
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