in the display of an item, i'd like some of the items that occur as
its property values to be rendered "inline" (directly in the page)
instead of as popups.
(there was an earlier thread under the subject "Exhibit Handling
Hierarchical JSON Data", and this could be one way to show some more
of the graph's depth.)
i think inline rendering could be specified in a lens by adding an
attribute like "ex:inline" to an element that uses ex:content.
for example:
<div ex:role="lens" class="nobelist">
...
<span ex:content=".co-winner" ex:inline="true">
this would mean that the .co-winner property values should be rendered
inline here.
of course, there's some danger of writing recursive lenses that go on
rendering dom nodes until your browser explodes. (i think my example
would do that.) but i don't think that's a reason not to provide the
facility.
thoughts?
(i might have a go at implementing this myself. i'm eyeing
Exhibit.Lens.prototype._constructDefaultUI(). it seems like it could
be straightforward, although it looks like there are some subtleties
concerning rendering an item more than once, and perhaps other stuff i
haven't thought of.)
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