[OpenLayers-Dev] thoughts on examples

[Paul Spencer]

Nice work, Tim!

Would it be useful to have links to show the javascript that makes the  
example run, or are we assuming that folks know to right-click and  
view source?  I think we could easily get the content of the script  
tag for the example and pop it up in a div or something.

Paul

On 9-May-08, at 1:26 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:

> Hey-
>
> So, I've got examples on the brain.  A few thoughts:
>
> I'd like it if we could keep more acceptance testy style examples  
> out of
> the examples dir.  We've got http://openlayers.org/dev/tests/manual/  
> for
> just this purpose.  I know we're not religious about checking those
> pages, but given the large number of examples in the examples dir, I
> like the idea of separating out tests.  Not sure what others think,  
> but
> examples like these are a bit confusing to me - and I'm guessing they
> are supposed to be more like tests:
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/popups.html
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/popupMatrix.html
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/browser-name.html
> (maybe more, apologies for picking on popups)
>
> Also, very minor, but Chris razzed me long ago about "you and all your
> dashes" so I thought I would justify.  Google has long treated hyphens
> as word separators.  So, I've always used hyphens in page names that
> have a chance of getting indexed.  I know they are smarter with word
> splitting now, but I still think it is a good idea in terms of SEO:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=openlayers+navigation+history+example
>
> Anyway, don't want to come across as the example cop, but I have been
> impressed with well organized and very useful examples in other
> libraries, and I think we have some room for improvement.
>
> Tim
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