After a few posts where I wanted to include code examples, I quickly became frustrated with the standard <pre> display that the folks at WordPress recommend. I looked for a plugin that worked well, but didn’t like what I was seeing. So at the prodding of my colleague, Pat Doran, I decided to roll my own plugin.
The result is my “Code Face” plugin. It uses the YUI JavaScript framework to scan your posts and replace specially tagged <pre> blocks with rich code syntax highlighting via the syntaxhighlighter utility. Ninety-nine percent of the plugin is written in JavaScript using the concept of progressive enhancement. That means that even if your readers have JavaScript turned off or are using a screen reader, the content of your post is still highly accessible.
Check it out and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear your comments.
I find the lack of qbasic or assembly language support to be lame.
Congrats on getting it up and running! You should totally post it on Wordpress.org.
I’ve submitted it to WordPress. They said they’d get back to me. Nothing on dradis yet.
Dradis would be a sweet name for a plugin