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Derek Kinsman
The Idea Company
New Media Designer
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Hi David, drat, I thought that was a keen idea.
As far as getting Exhibit into the blogs, that's coming along fine.
I've been using a Ruby on Rails CMS by the name of Radiant CMS which
seems to be working better then the Wordpress integration, but i'm
moving them both forward as I know there are more Wordpress users then
Radiant users, and more web hosts with PHP then Rails. Right now I'm
stuck at a point where do I get Wordpress/Radiant to generate a JSON
feed or do I get Exhibit capable of reading an XML feed. Either way
once that happens we can basically either use the WP/Radiant JSON or
XML feed and have exhibit call that file which will auto update
whenever a post goes up. Or if you have multiple feeds off the site
you could use those for different collections, etc. etc. Personally I
think for the sake of the other blogs in existence I would like to see
Exhibit capable of generating exhibits from XML/RSS feeds, that way
people could use it on there non WP/Radiant powered CMS/blogs.
I also had another question about the Show/Hide ability. For users
who have large datasets, ie. more then say 100, I think it would make
sense to have instead of "Show All" perhaps a "Next 20" and break up
the exhibit into "pages." Something like: "Prev, 1 2 3 4 5 Next"
using ex:showAll="false" ex:showAmount="20" and then Exhibit only
shows 20 items at a time. I think this would also allow Exhibit to
handle larger amounts of data, especially if it can somehow only load
those specific items instead of all of the items. I don't know that
much about javascript so I'm not sure how
easy/hard/possible/impossible that would be.
Cheers,
Derek
Derek Kinsman
The Idea Company
New Media Designer
http://www.ideacompany.ca/
http://boring.ambitiouslemon.com/
1.416.371.5652
David Huynh wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> I think Google won't execute Exhibit's code and so those meta
> elements won't get filled properly... It's too bad, really :(
>
> The method of getting Exhibit to generate the html and then
> embedding it back in a <noscript> element seems to work fine.
>
> How are you doing with getting Exhibit into blogs?...
>
> David
>
> derek | idea company wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'm glad I've made your day. I had a thought about getting
>> google to better crawl the website, I don't know if it'll work or
>> not, but I'd be more than happy to test and find out. Firstly,
>> does the ex:example-content="" work on any page that's calling
>> the exhibit api or does it just work inside the exhibit lens
>> templates, or UI components? If it does work anywhere that the
>> API is being called could something like this work:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> <html
>> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML
>> 1.1//EN" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type"
>> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta
>> http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> <meta
>> http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="robots"
>> content="all" /> <meta name="copyright"
>> ex:content-content=".copyright" /> <meta name="description"
>> ex:content-content=".description" /> <meta name="keywords"
>> ex:content-content=".keywords" /> <meta
>> name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
>>
>> <title></title>
>>
>> <script
>>
src="http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/api/exhibit-api.js?views=timeline";
>> type="text/javascript"></script>
>>
>> <link href="js/cgdh-schema.js" type="application/json"
>> rel="exhibit/data" /> </head> Or has this already been thought
>> of? Let me know what you think, I can give it a test and wait
>> the standard week for google to recrawl my site and let you know
>> if it worked or not.
>>
>> Cheers, Derek
>>
>> Derek Kinsman The Idea Company
>>
>> New Media Designer
>>
>> http://www.ideacompany.ca/ http://boring.ambitiouslemon.com/
>> 1.416.371.5652
>>
>>
>>
>> David Huynh wrote:
>>
>> Hi Derek,
>>
>> That's a great idea! I'll try to implement the search feature
>> soon. Now that Exhibit's UI has been fragmented into smaller
>> pieces, it's easier to implement new pieces without feeling
>> guilty about forcing them on the users, because they can be
>> plugged in only when wanted.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>>> ... and thanks for the "cooler than your mom" thing on your
>>> site :-) It makes my day!
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>
>
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