{ "title": "Welcome to myword.io!", "description": "An easy open source way to create nice-looking web pages for essays.", "authorname": "Dave Winer", "authorwebsite": "http://scripting.com/", "when": "Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:52:05 GMT", "img": "http://scripting.com/2015/02/12/beatles.png", "titlefont": "Ubuntu", "bodyfont": "Georgia", "subs": [ "My name is Dave Winer. I wanted an easy way to make nice-looking web pages for essays. That's how I arrived at myword.io.", "It's a very simple JavaScript app embedded in a web page. It's so simple, there's almost nothing to it. I've shared the source code on GitHub, and licensed it as open source, so you can see for yourself, and use it however you like.", { "title": "The app and website", "subs": [ "The app reads a simple JSON format. Here's an example file. The text you're reading right now comes from a JSON file. It would be really easy to create a simple text editor that produces these files, hiding the technical details from users.", "There's a standalone public web page version at myword.io. It takes an optional url parameter, which specifies the address of the JSON file to use. If none is specified, we read the file essay.json in the same directory as the HTML page. ", "Here's an example of myword.io being used to display the contents of the example file stored in my public Dropbox folder." ] }, { "title": "Where to go from here", "subs": [ "If you have suggestions, feel free to post them as a reply to this blog post.", "That's about it for now. I hope you enjoy myword.io. Feel free to use it, or the standalone public web page version. And if you agree, tell other people you think it's cool.", "Dave", "PS: Phil Windley loves myword.io! :-)" ] } ] }