Programming questions tagged blackberry will normally relate to Java (since BlackBerry applications are written in Java).
Can we adjust the syntax highlighting so that blackberry questions are syntax-highlighted as Java?
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Sign up to join this communityProgramming questions tagged blackberry will normally relate to Java (since BlackBerry applications are written in Java).
Can we adjust the syntax highlighting so that blackberry questions are syntax-highlighted as Java?
While "old school" Blackberry OS development happens mostly in Java (you can write pure native applications as well), the new BlackBerry 10 release does not natively support Java applications (it can run Android applications however).
Blackberry 10 does not currently seem to have lots of questions (probably because the devices are still pretty new, but I suspect it to overtake the classical BlackBerry questions in volume rather quickly.
I think the real question is whether the blackberry
tag will, or should be, reserved for legacy BlackBerry (OS 4 - 7) development. Or, will it now be used to cover BlackBerry 10 development, too.
If it's only going to be used for legacy BB Java development (which is by far the dominant BB development model, pre-BB10), then I vote for making Java syntax highlighting automatic. I can't tell you how often I edit BlackBerry questions just to add the <!-- language-all: lang-java -->
markup, because unhighlighted code is almost unreadable, especially when sloppy posters clutter it up with a bunch of stuff that's commented out ... the code prettify function nicely identifies commented-out code.
If the tag, however, should be used for BB-10, and beyond, then Java syntax highlighting should not be activated.
Note that there is already a blackberry-10
tag, and it seems to be getting some use.
I think I would cast my vote for making Java highlighting automatic for blackberry
, and a comment here by another Top-10 BlackBerry answerer, Richard, seems to agree (with the part about blackberry
being for BB Java).
blackberry
tag (none of whom have yet to comment on this question), specifically steer people away from using thejava
tag, because whenever you do that, a bunch of standard Java people jump in and offer solutions, completely oblivious to the fact that most modern Java APIs are not available on BlackBerry Java (which is 1.3, for the most part). Even tagging withjava-me
isn't perfect, although most of us consider that vastly better than tagging withjava
. – Nate Apr 13 '13 at 1:27java-me
tag not get Java syntax by default? This seems like an obvious choice for syntax highlighting. – Michael Donohue Apr 13 '13 at 4:49