Congratulations for david and team for the new release. !! I havent tested it yet but will do that soon. Anyways, all the new features sounds cool.
Cheers, Ashutosh > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:19:20 -0400 > From: David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: A few new features to Exhibit 2.0 beta > To: General List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > (If you have been using Exhibit, you might have to hold down Shift when > clicking your browser's Refresh button to make sure you get the latest > Exhibit code.) > > -------------------- New Features -------------------- > > [[[ 1 ]]] > "(missing this field)" in a facets lets you filter down to items that > are missing data for that facet. For example, in this exhibit > > http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/senate/senate.html > > clicking on "(missing this field)" in the Sponsoring facet yields 90 > senators who don't sponsor any bill, and then clicking on "(missing this > field)" in the On Bill Committee facet yields 11 senators (among those > 90) who ain't on any bill committee. This feature is useful for > detecting missing data, or possibly under-performing senators. > > [[[ 2 ]]] > ex:query attribute in a text search facet presets the query for that > facet (much like ex:selection for list facets). > > [[[ 3 ]]] > ex:colorCoder in a list facet links that facet to the given color coder. > For an example, see the Political Parties facet of this exhibit > > http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents-2.html > > [[[ 4 ]]] > ex:onshow attribute in a lens template gets executed when the lens is > used to render an item. For example, > > <div ex:role="lens" ex:onshow="this.style.background = > 'blue';">...</div> > > causes the lens to always be blue. (Of course you could have just used > style="background: blue".) Use this.getAttribute('ex:itemID') to get the > ID of the item. An elaborate example would include a lens template like this > > <div ex:role="lens" ex:onshow="prepareLens(this);"> > ... > <div ex:id-subcontent="tab1-{{value}}">...</div> > <div ex:id-subcontent="tab2-{{value}}">...</div> > ... > </div> > > together with some Javascript like this > > function prepareLens(elmt) { > var itemID = elmt.getAttribute("ex:itemID"); > var tab1 = document.getElementById("tab1-" + itemID); > var tab2 = document.getElementById("tab2-" + itemID); > ... > } > > -------------------- Old Features resurrected from v1.0 -------------------- > > [[[ 1 ]]] Generated HTML exporter on Tile, Thumbnail, and Tabular views. > > [[[ 2 ]]] Putting an item's ID as the hash of the URL to an exhibit > would bring up a dialog box showing that item when the exhibit loads. E.g., > > > http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/publications.html#SIMILE:%20Rich%20Internet%20Collections > > [[[ 3 ]]] <body ex:exporters="Bibtex"> adds the bibtex exporter to the > export dropdown menu. > > > Please let me know if you find any bug. Thanks! > > David > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
