I have been toying a bit with loadDataFromTable and layouting some (past and forthcoming) events views at
http://ecmanaut.googlepages.com/choir-events.html and run into something slightly ugly. In the timeline (third tab; pardon the Swedish - the exhibit shows public appearances of my local choir), the border around the element extends far outside of its content and into the realm of the facets I've float:right-ed to go next to it. The .exhibit-timelineView-timelineContainer element has the border, but playing in Firebug, it looks like this should work if it was instead put on the div classed "exhibit-timelineView-timeline timeline-container" instead. Should I file that as a feature request ticket instead of mentioning it here? Anyway, the page could be interesting for other reasons, too. It doesn't seem to work too well with all browsers (I've only really tried it out well in firefox, so far), but being done as an HTML table, it degrades rather gracefully for Google and other visitors by means of loadDataFromTable. All that functionality probably hasn't completely stabilized yet, but some of it could use more eyes and discussion already. In its current form, you lay out your data like this (thead and tbody tags not strictly necessary): <table id="any-reference-will-do" ex:type="Something" ex:pluralLabel="Somethings"> <thead><tr> <th ex:valueType="number">Property1</th> <th ex:pluralLabel="Sightings">Property2</th> <th>label</th> <th>Property4</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>Thingy</td><td>Stratford-Upon-Avon</td></tr> <tr><td>17</td><td>4711</td><td>Thingamajig</td><td>Gloucester</td></tr> </tbody> </table> and typically render the exhibit with something like var exhibit = Exhibit.create('any-reference-will-do', 'Something'); My example tries to overcome having to name one of the columns "label" (a word which doesn't have a meaning in Swedish) using an ex:name property which might be a hack, but which works for the time being, anyway. I'm not sure that's a very pretty solution, though; other ideas welcome. (I havent tied in the map functionality yet, since I didn't remember how to do it at the time, so the final tab puts the Exhibit into an eternal busy state, for the time being.) -- / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
