Yeah, this is very much my own thinking, too. ie +1
On 8 September 2013 09:32, GESCONSULTOR - Óscar Bou <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > >> > >
