Re: [CODE4LIB] LibraryThing JSON API

2008-03-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Jay Roos wrote: Whenever I decide whether to link from our catalog to something external, I always want to know how I bring the patron back once they've found something they're interested in. Do you have or have you considered a way to close the loop and bring someone who

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibraryThing JSON API

2008-03-25 Thread Nate Vack
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My big worry is expired sessions. Any ideas how to solve that without using a new-session URL? Long session expiry times? -Nate

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibraryThing JSON API

2008-03-25 Thread Tim Spalding
I've seen some OPACs with a you are about to be logged out popup. The LC does this. I'd think it would be easy to write a JS that simply refreshes the page, reinvigorating the session. All of this is idiotic and childish, of course. The only non-library website I visit now that times out at all

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibraryThing JSON API

2008-03-25 Thread Sutherland, Michael
My big worry is expired sessions. Any ideas how to solve that without using a new-session URL? Tim You also pass along a session id and if the user times out, she could log back in and continue the previous session. As for, One of the few useful things that came from that whole HTML Frames

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibraryThing JSON API

2008-03-25 Thread Tim Spalding
We've had this fight on Code4Lib before, but it deserves mentioning that no browser breaks this, and no browser developer is going to break it. It's widely used—for more widely used than any number of standards-compliant techniques that don't work and probably never will. To care about this in the