On 7 September 2013 18:58, Kevin Meyer - KMZ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I would be interested in helping out with a new viewer that is stateless
> and (data-type) extensible. When I first saw this thread I thought
> "HTML 5?" Then I saw David's reply and comment, so then maybe
> not..
>
>
Well, for myself I am keen to keep with web UI in some flavour or other.
We want the largest reach/most appeal. Staying with a desktop client
would limit that, I think. And we don't really have the resources to build
two.
Also, for the most likely deployment cases of Isis - within an enterprise -
I would hope that a web UI is appropriate; we can more carefully specify
the web browsers we support. (I can see that Facebook, having to support
absolutely everything out there, might decide that native was easier).
> I know of an application development coming up in a few years time
> where I'd like to push Isis, but it requires support for scientific data
> visualisation (waveforms, graphs and etc). So this would be an
> absolute must for me (the ability to add a component handler for a
> MIME/blob type)... (d3js.org looks interesting.. must look more into it)
>
>
Having some concrete use cases like this will really help. I agree,
being extensible for new data types ("mashability" ?) should be part of the
spec of the viewer. The Wicket viewer's design (chain of responsibility)
could be used as a starting point to thrashing this out.
>
> > Anyway... no work on a new RO viewer is going to happen this side of
> Xmas,
> > but it might be worth arranging some sort of get together over a offsite
> > weekend (in Europe, somewhere) to thrash out ideas.
>
> Excellent idea. I'd also like to add "timezone handling" to the agenda..
>
>
Fair enough; we don't have a good story there.
> > I'm thinking something like Mar~May next year (depending on how well
> > Estatio beds in when it goes live).
> >
> > Let me know your thoughts, and whether you'd be interested in meeting up
> to
> > discuss this (or any other Isis-related stuff, I suppose).
>
> Well, I can recommend Slovenia (EasyJet flies direct to Ljubljana)!
> It's a quiet little country and most people probably wouldn't consider
> coming here without good reason, so why not offer this as a reason..
> but practically I realise that somewhere more central is more likely to
> be favoured by all.
>
>
I guess all of those attending will be getting on a plane one way or
another; the deciding factor might be frequency of flights.
Cheers
Dan
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>
