Seems that the new viewer has many supporters. But if the planned meeting is on march-april, it also implies that we cannot expect a new viewer probably until one year from now.
Perhaps, in the meantime, we could consider the addition of Bootstrap to the Wicket viewer. That seemed a really good solution until the new viewer debate started, and also that it was feasible to accomplish it on Christmas. There were also some contributors interested, and it can be a way to learn about bootstrap in the meanwhile. The end-result would be a really good (stateful) customizable viewer for 2014 (including some navigation improvements like those transient entities used only for navigation, and, perhaps, modal action dialogs) and a really scalable and customizable viewer from 2015 on. What does the community think? Thanks, Oscar El 08/09/2013, a las 09:30, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> escribió: > 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 > > > >> -- >> Kevin Meyer, Cell: +386 (0)70 260 321 Ljubljana, Slovenia >>
