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What's your data format? Good programmers will care as much about that as how your UI works. I see you've got a formatting guide: https://usecanvas.com/about/f
by seagreen 11y ago
What's your data format? Good programmers will care as much about that as how your UI works.
I see you've got a formatting guide: https://usecanvas.com/about/formatting-guide/0DZTK4lz2cWsqOnKzISLPq https://usecanvas.com/about/formatting-guide/0DZTK4lz2cWsqOn... Do you have a more formal specification for your format?
More importantly, how do you handle history? If I spend a year putting notes into Canvas and then have to switch for some reason (which might happen no matter how awesome Canvas is) what will I get when I export my notes?
- jclem 11y agoIf you're asking what we're storing in the database, that data is a plain string with some special delimiters in it denoting line types and metadata about the content. At the application level, we're typically working with a version of that data that's structured a little bit more like this: https://usecanvas.com/about/canvas/55h8GVkBfi5Lnr2Becv5tB.json https://usecanvas.com/about/canvas/55h8GVkBfi5Lnr2Becv5tB.js... Currently, exporting your canvas will give you the format above, or `.markdown`, or `.html`. To answer your second question, we use operational transformation for the collaborative part of the platform, so we do have some history of operations on a canvas, but haven't quite decided for how long we'll be retaining that history and how we can best make it available to users.
- seagreen 11y agoNice, that definitely answers my question. When you do decide on how to export history please write a blog post or something about it, I'm curious to see what you come up with.