Some more thoughts about references <-> related videos

[shiffman]

I realize my comments keep leading in the direction of more work for me, but in looking at the additional flexible tabs (that i"m using for "REFERENCES" and "VIDEOS" right now), I wonder if these might feel less "blank" to me, if everything included three elements:

1. Emoji icon (Custom one / Coding Train character?)
2. Title (linked to URL)
3. Short description

I imagine this relates to the discussion around #57.

e.g.

    {
      "title": "References",
      "links": [
        {
          "icon": "🔢",
          "title": "Fisher-Yates Shuffle"
          "url": "https://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/"
          "description": "The Fisher-Yates shuffle is an algorithm for generating a random permutation of a finite sequence",
        },
        {
          "icon": "✏️"
          "title": "copy()"
          "url": "https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/copy"
          "description:": "The full details about copy() are on the p5.js reference.",
        }
      ]
    },

Here's what it looks like me putting all this metadata just in the title

[fdoflorenzano]

I like this idea! It shouldn't be hard to implement too.

[shiffman]

Great! Would it makes sense for me to start adding some sample content with the above JSON structure in the branch I'm working in? #60

[fdoflorenzano]

Yes! From that I can do, yet another, branch and test it out :)

[shiffman]

I've added the sample metadata to the slide puzzle challenge! a8a0a49. I'd be ok with doing away with "author" if that is helpful, it can always be in the description. One question is whether the descriptions can accept any html tags, like if I wanted to link to something additional?

[fdoflorenzano]

One question is whether the descriptions can accept any html tags, like if I wanted to link to something additional?

It can be done! Are you just thinking about anchor elements?

[fdoflorenzano]

Also, just to make sure, are you thinking of removing the "author" property in favor of "description", right? @shiffman

[shiffman]

It can be done! Are you just thinking about anchor elements?

That's all that comes to mind now yes!

Also, just to make sure, are you thinking of removing the "author" property in favor of "description", right? @shiffman

I think that makes sense, @klinegareth any reason you can think of why we might need a specific "author" field?

[augustkline]

@shiffman No, I think removing it is okay!

[fdoflorenzano]

Closing in favor of #69