Christopher Patterson ha scritto:
> Thanks for bringing this up, Andrea.
> 
> Overall, I'm +1 (feedback below)
> 
> Rollie had pointed out that this page is currently hidden behind Demos 
> in the UI. I'd love to move it to the sidebar (should all the links on 
> the current demos page maybe be moved to the sidebar?). If we need to 
> put it behind an extra page, I think we ought to try to come up with a 
> better umbrella term than demos - it seems like they're actually focused 
> on providing information about the currently-running geoserver instance 
> than actual demos.

Yep, you have a point there, preview is no demo to me either.
Maybe we should add a "tools" section? Or just list preview
as a main element.
Also, mind, Justin suggested to add the capabilities into
the sidebar as well, this means 5 new links are getting into
the sidebar as well, with some extra ones incoming each
time we implement a new version of a standard (e.g., WMS 1.3
or WPS 1.0).
Doesn't this risks of making the sidebar too long?

> Rather than prefixing each row with (wms) or (wfs), I'd suggest using 
> <optgroup> tags to organize the options in that dropdown. 
> (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_optgroup is a 
> simple demo for folks who are wondering what that tag does).

Sure, can do. The list would become a little long thought,
that's why I suggested two separate dropdowns below.

>> As for having better looking names for the dropdown, we
>> may be able use the internationalization subsystem to
>> provide better looking labels starting from the mime types.
>> Or maybe we can just forget about that and fill the dropdown
>> with the mime types, it's supposed to be an advanced option
>> anyways.
>>
>> Also, we may want to have two drodowns, one for wms
>> extras, and one for wfs extras. The end result
>> would be a table with xx columns:
>> - workspace
>> - layer name
>> - ol preview link
>> - kml preview link
>> - gml2 preview link
>> - other wms formats dropdown
>> - other wfs formats dropdown
>> (layers page also has 7 columns)
>>
>> Maybe by clicking on the layer name one would get
>> to the layer description page that was made for
>> geosearch? Provided the page is available, that is.
> I think I'm +1 on this - where would the layer name link if there isn't 
> a layer description page available?

Nowhere?
Cheers
Andrea


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