You get the prize for answering my (embedded, vague) question, Terran! I appreciate the feedback.
For reference, printing (specifically, unmediated to multiple printers), external file storage, websockets, and a few general-purpose UI components are the highest priority targets for now, since everything else relies on them. They need to be fairly well established before we can move on to implementing interfaces. Mind you, I don't expect printing to by *done* before we start on the UIs -- I imagine it will be a work in progress for some time -- but how it operates and how the browser communicates with printers needs to ironed out up front. Thanks, -b On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:32 AM, McCanna, Terran < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bill! > > I missed the print discussion on IRC, so thank you for summarizing that on > the wiki. I'm delighted that you're working on printing solutions at this > early stage since printing has been acknowledged as one of the biggest > unknowns in the development of the web client. (And, for some reason, > library receipt printers and label printers seem to have more > idiosyncrasies than any other type of printer I've ever used!) > > I look forward to hearing how it handles working with receipt and label > printers and with printing graphics. I know some of the PINES libraries > incorporate graphics (usually their library logo or summer reading program > or other promotional graphics) into their receipts already, and I expect > the use of that feature to grow. > > > Terran McCanna > PINES Program Manager > Georgia Public Library Service > 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 > Atlanta, GA 30345 > 404-235-7138 > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Erickson" <[email protected]> > To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" < > [email protected]>, "Evergreen Discussion Group" < > [email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:58:48 AM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser staff client development notes / updates > > > > Hi All, > > > I've started adding notes and points of interest for browser staff > development to a wiki page: > > http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes > > > > I'm putting them here, because I like having everything in one place, but > as bigger issues arise, I'll try to point them out on the lists as well. Of > interest may be my updates for 2014-03-04, since the printer PoC was only > discussed in IRC. > > > I'm tagging myself as an author to each of my posts with the assumption > that others may wish to add to the log as the project expands. > > > Feedback welcome as always. > > > -b > > -- > > > Bill Erickson > | Senior Software Developer > | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: [email protected] > | web: http://esilibrary.com > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > > -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://esilibrary.com | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
