Polish https://pod6.in/

[patrickbkr]

I think an online Pod6 editor is a brilliant idea and has the potential to promote Pod6 a lot because of its approachability. (Opening a website has the lowest barrier of entry one can possibly have.) So this issue is mostly an encouragement to polish the https://pod6.in/ website more.

Here are just some ideas of what could be done:

• Give it a logo and a shiny page header
• Add an "About" button
• Link to the repo with a GitHub icon
• Add a link to https://docs.raku.org/language/pod
• Add a basic syntax documentation on the page itself
• Do some SEO so it pops up at the top when googling "pod6 editor" and "pod6 editor online"
• Add more expressive HTML highlighting (in the right column). Compare the a docs page with viewing the pod in pod6.in
• Add some POD highlighting (in the left column).
• Persist edited content (in a cookie?), so it's not lost on reload.

[zag]

hi @patrickbkr! 👋
Awesome todo list !
thank you!

[patrickbkr]

I just added one more point to the list.

[zag]

yeah, good point!
Thank you for bringing it up. I will try to find some time and get back to https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-raku

[patrickbkr]

And one more. :-) I do like editing with the site a lot.

[patrickbkr]

Oh, actually I meant the highlighting of the HTML! But adding highlighting to the pod definitely also helps. I'll update the comment.

[zag]

yes, also will be good to have:
make URL for point to the edited document
👍

[zag]

Oh, actually I meant the highlighting of the HTML! But adding highlighting to the pod definitely also helps. I'll update the comment.

https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-raku is about highlighting the HTML!

[zag]

Add some POD highlighting.

This is also a cool idea to add highlighting source text in the editor depends on the block type, i.e. headers, italic ...

[patrickbkr]

I think I somehow misunderstand. https://highlightjs.org/ is a syntax highlighting library to add highlighting to source code. As such I assumed highlightjs-raku allows adding highlighting to Raku code and POD markup. Is that wrong?

[patrickbkr]

Could improving these projects be good candidate for a GSoC project?

[zag]

https://highlightjs.org/ - javascript library for highlighting <code> sections in HTML for various formats ( included program languages or data formats, like XML )

pod6.in uses https://codemirror.net/ editor for source texts ( which, of course, can be themed and highlighted)

✌️

[zag]

Could improving these projects be good candidate for a GSoC project?

Defiantly yes, adding raku highlighting into highlightjs library [1] - cool candidate.
Just in case, check this[2]

thank you!

[1] Raku Language Definition for Highlight.js library https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-raku
[2] Raku ideas https://rakudoweekly.blog/2021/02/01/2021-05-gsoc-proposing/

[zag]

✅ Do some SEO so it pops up at the top when googling "pod6 editor" and "pod6 editor online"
✅ Persist edited content (in a cookie?), so it's not lost on reload.

happy typing!

[patrickbkr]

Hooray for persistent editing!

Can you put a "Are you really sure?" on the Reset button?

[zag]

• fixed
  thank you!