Re: Using a slideshow within Exhibit

2008-10-10 Thread David Karger
Here's one quick suggestion: build a hidden facet on the label or id or some other field that is unique to each item. Write attach a bit of js to the next button that updates the selection in that facet to the value corresponding to the next item in the order (in which you would like things to

Re: Exhibit data entry

2008-11-18 Thread David Karger
Alex, I've stumbled across this old message, and wanted to mention to you that we have made at least one effort that seems to meet your inquiry, to extend exhibit with a syntax for data entry lenses that let people submit data to google spreadsheets. You can find an example here:

Re: loading exhibits with ajax

2008-11-25 Thread David Karger
check out picker.mit.edu for an example of solving this problem. it can load more courses on the fly. thaiboxer wrote: My 'library' exhibit is going to get a lot bigger soon i will need to break it apart due to the amount of items need for unique facets. to setup the navigation i'm think

Re: Few Queries regarding Exhibit.

2008-11-26 Thread David Karger
ozzy wrote: I am just getting to grips with Exhibit, it is SO powerful ! Keep those compliments coming; it'll keep us working :) We currently are developing a site at http://www.visatimeline.com/my-visa-timeline/index.html I have a few questions, and I have read as much of the

Re: Exhibit bubble URL control

2008-12-24 Thread David Karger
I don't know how to control the bubble but here are two answers. Warf wrote: I have been playing with Exhibit (which is awesome BTW), and am curious about doing a couple different things in the bubble. http://www3.telus.net/warfsworld/html/travel/travel_map.html 1) I have some pages which

Re: Presenting today Need Quick Help: console' is undefined error

2008-12-24 Thread David Karger
On Dec 24, 10:51 am, David Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: Good luck. By the way, I noticed that you have color coded your timeline entries, presumably according to some categorization. If you used exhibit (http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit) to wrap your timeline, you would be able to offer

Re: Label has to be unique in Exhibit?

2009-01-02 Thread David Karger
Depends what you mean by works. the label is by default the property that identifies an item, and it is often useful to use the same label in distinct places to refer to the same item---eg, if you have a file of locations, and you create a separate file of their geocoded latitudes and longitudes.

Re: Custom sort terms

2009-01-08 Thread David Karger
Ted, that's a really nice exhibit. Since you volunteered :), let me put in my 2 cents on what would be nice to have. Your idea, of having the order of a certain set of items specified schematically as part of the data file, is on that I have suggested in the past. I think it is a good one. I

Re: social bookmarks through Exhibit

2009-01-11 Thread David Karger
the problem is that exhibit can't read any old json; it needs it in a particular form where the name items is bound to an array of items. You can write a little javascript converter to get the data in the right form; exhibit will take care of fetching the data, will give it to your converter,

Re: social bookmarks through Exhibit

2009-01-12 Thread David Karger
I am sure my student peter, who is behind this site, would be happy to get a collaborator, if you want to do that instead of repeating the work. John Callahan wrote: This is very close to what I was trying to do. Yes, I believe it will help, ...or it may actually hurt. Now, after seeing the

Re: Feature request: custom event properties

2009-01-14 Thread David Karger
If you want to filter your events easily you might want to luck at exhibit which supports filtering natively. http://simile.mit.edu/exhiit jqueryui-vienna wrote: the event object should be enhanced to store custom properties (e.g. editor/submitter of the event, event category etc). Currently,

Re: Wibbit Help?

2009-01-15 Thread David Karger
Ruby, you are welcome to use this list as the wibiters do read it. Ruby Q wrote: I'm simply trying to find the right place to ask questions about the Wibbit Exhibit extension for Mediawiki. With the migration from MIT to Google Code, things seem to be scattered about. My thanks to anybody

Re: Error message: Item entry has no label and no id: {(nameofcat:[]}

2009-01-23 Thread David Karger
that's because every item in an exhibit _must_ have a label. Make one of your column headings label and things should work. Marko wrote: Hello, I keep running into this message: Item entry has no label and no id: {(beschrijving:[]} I get it with all script-libraries and also with old

Re: Support for Editable Exhibits (beta feature)

2009-02-03 Thread David Karger
Eric, it's still being worked on. Scott Ostler (sbost...@gmail.com) can mail you a working link. David Huynh wrote: neyric wrote: Hi, I'd like to try the books example but the link is broken. Is it available on the svn ? I'm also very interested in the following upcoming feature:

Re: Facette - Exhibit for Delicious

2009-02-12 Thread David Karger
quick suggestion: your exhibit is showing the tags in raw form a(b). Why not reformat them to look nice? e.g. type: tool; contains: books; Peter wrote: Hi Simile, I've just completed a service that displays Delicious bookmarks within an Exhibit. I do so by crowd-sourcing the classification

Re: Timeline styling and event positioning

2009-02-12 Thread David Karger
I don't think a guide exists. It would be great if you could add the classes you find to a table in the documentation wiki to help the next person. Micky Hulse wrote: Hi, Is there any sort of guide on how to style all the elements? Currently, I am using Firebug to get class names and then

Re: Date Format issue from Google Spreadsheet

2009-02-13 Thread David Karger
I copied your exhibit and fixed the problem by swapping the order of the included data files, on the theory that the schema file should get the last chance to set the state of the system. I am guessing the google spreadsheet reader is clearing something it shouldn't from the schema. There is a

Re: exhibit, many to many without multiple entries in one field

2009-02-19 Thread David Karger
It's ok; you can use author and article as ID even if they appear multiple times. First do the obvious thing, creating items for the exhibit corresponding to the authors and articles (using author name as id for the authors, and article title as id for the articles): {type: Author, id: name of

Re: Exhibit - Adapting facets to choose from ON THE FLY

2009-02-22 Thread David Karger
Matthias, your description is pretty abstract. Can you give a more concrete example of how this would be used? That might help us understand if there is a way to accomplish what you want with the current exhibit framework. For example, it is already possible to make facets collapsible and have

Re: Keeping php query string in link from bubble

2009-03-05 Thread David Karger
Rasmus, I'm afraid there really isn't enough info in your email to make a diagnosis. Putting up the source html would make it a lot easier. No worries if it isn't deployable yet---it's just to let us see what you are trying to do, not to evaluate how well you are doing it. rasmack wrote: Hi

Re: Timeline on IE 6 upper band becomes days and lower band months when loading many (62) events

2009-03-12 Thread David Karger
One suggestion is to switch to exhibit, and add some facets that would let you filter your events down to a more manageable number! Tony wrote: I have 62 events in a Google spreadsheet. Each event is 3 months long and the entire span 12 months. The events stack up too high vertically to fit

Re: create a menu of timeline events next to timeline

2009-03-13 Thread David Karger
I'm not sure exactly how to do it, but I think it should be possible to create a lens showing those items which contains a fragment of javascript code telling the map/timeline to center on that item, e.g. div ex:role=lens a ex:onclick-content=javascript:myScrollTo({{.label}}) span

Re: create a menu of timeline events next to timeline

2009-03-13 Thread David Karger
tiles view? If so, any hints as to render it and invoke than lens? On Mar 13, 12:04 pm, David Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: I'm not sure exactly how to do it, but I think it should be possible to create a lens showing those items which contains a fragment of javascript code telling

Re: create a menu of timeline events next to timeline

2009-03-13 Thread David Karger
nicely, just without the link functionality that I'm hoping for div ex:role=view div ex:role=lens span ex:content=.label/span /div /div On Mar 13, 12:41 pm, David Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: no, i just meant the default list-of-things view. This should make that lens active

Re: AND between facet values

2009-03-16 Thread David Karger
It's a hack, but you can do it by making two facets on the same property. Exhibit will and between the selections on the two facets. Luigi Spagnolo wrote: Hello, I am new to Exhibit. I ask you if there is a way to obtain an AND between values belonging to the same facet. Suppose that my

Re: Dealing with missing data

2009-03-17 Thread David Karger
Another approach would be to explicitly describe gaps in the data file as e.g. invisible points. This would push the problem of detecting gaps back to the source app. Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Vipul Gupta wrote: I'm interested in using Simile timeplot for plotting data values collected

Re: dragging vertically in timelines

2009-03-21 Thread David Karger
Why not go whole hog and make a vertical summary band like the second current horizontal band that would allow for rapid scrolling vertically? Or perhaps when you want to scroll in two dimensions the right approach is something like google maps' little 2d summary view that is collapsible in the

Re: dragging vertically in timelines

2009-03-23 Thread David Karger
view just a little, and a two dimensional summary might be a way to do it as David Karger has suggested. At the very least, I think there ought to be some sort of indication that there is more above or below the line. Making your existing indicator, the 'scroll' bar on the right

Re: dragging vertically in timelines

2009-03-24 Thread David Karger
yes, barrel is what I meant---to show stuff around the sides. Not sure it is a good idea, but thought I'd toss it out. David Huynh wrote: David Karger wrote: you mean use a native vertical scrollbar? That would seem to create a mixed metaphor ui; That was one of the reasons I

Re: Timeline User Control with C# and Masterpage

2009-03-26 Thread David Karger
www.recovery.org Larry Kluger wrote: Thanks EC, Any public Timeline pages that we can add to the In-the-wild section of the wiki? Thanks, Larry *From:* EC coopey...@gmail.com *To:* SIMILE Widgets

Re: how to make a table view display only entries of a certain type

2009-03-27 Thread David Karger
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/2.0/Collections Rahul wrote: How can I restrict a TableView so that it only displays data of a certain type? I suspect I ought to use lenses but the tutorial is very short on how to use them. I've one .js file with persons: { items : [

Re: Datapress Released

2009-04-02 Thread David Karger
what's the point about comments? since the exhibit is in an article, can't you just comment on the article? Adam Marcus wrote: Thanks for the comments, John! We're excited to hear you're working on a Drupal version of this. In working on a centrally hosted version, Ted and I hope to make

Re: Manipulating dates in Exhibit

2009-04-11 Thread David Karger
can look at. Does this mean that it’s not possible to do it the way I was attempting? All the best and thanks for any further assistance, Anthony *From:* simile-widgets@googlegroups.com [mailto:simile-widg...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *David Karger *Sent:* 08 April

Re: app: browse/listen to 60+ National Public Radio Podcasts in Pre2.4 Simile Timeline

2009-04-21 Thread David Karger
Niels, this looks interesting. I have a question: given that you've implemented a bunch of buttons to offer filtering on different types of podcast, why didn't you start with exhibit which has that functionality (and timelines) built in? Niels Mayer wrote:

Re: Facebook Simile Exhibit

2009-05-01 Thread David Karger
Steve, this is really cool. I tried to get a graduate student to put something like this together, but it never happened. One quick suggestion: in my exhibit, it looks like you'd get a bit more term convergence in facets if you regularized capitalization; eg liberal = Liberal in political

Re: EXHIBIT crashes with huge data

2009-05-07 Thread David Karger
that's too big. exhibit won't be able to deal with that much stuff. harsh wrote: Hello Guys, I have an RDF file with 100 million triples. I am trying to display this data using Exhibit. However whenever i load my exhibit html page it crashes and gives an Javascript load

Re: Chunked JSON and Programmatic Data Loading

2009-05-19 Thread David Karger
Take a look at picker.mit.edu, which does some of this programmatic json loading (you pick some departments initially, then while browsing there's a dropdown at top left that lets you add more courses. fractile81 wrote: I'm helping out matt in

Re: google's rich snippets in exhibit

2009-05-26 Thread David Karger
Maybe instead of physical separation we can settle for logical separation. Suppose we enable link rel=exhibit/data href=#local to specify that the data can be found in the element with name or id #local in the html doc? that data can be cdata encoded and meets the goal of being machine

Re: migrating examples to the new wiki [Was: Re: Classifier Ideas for new MIT Food Exhibit]

2009-06-02 Thread David Karger
Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: john.calla...@udel.edu http://www.dgs.udel.edu ** David Karger wrote: David Huynh wrote

Re: migrating examples to the new wiki [Was: Re: Classifier Ideas for new MIT Food Exhibit]

2009-06-03 Thread David Karger
Rich Snippets (and other semantic search engines) could take advantage of it. - John David Karger wrote: John, this is a really nice piece of work. But I think a potentially better way to host this data (because it makes it easy for anyone to edit) is in a fully exhibit-enabled wiki

Re: SIMILE documentation strategy

2009-06-04 Thread David Karger
John, I'm reasonably certain we've defaulted to (1) because both (2) and (3) require more substantial coordination and management, which we haven't been able to offer from within the simile team (too little manpower). I doubt (2) could work since it requires all contributors to code a certain

Re: exhibit: pagination

2009-06-21 Thread David Karger
David Huynh wrote: John Callahan wrote: I also just noticed in the Tile view, the item numbers do not continue for each page but instead reset to one. For example, page 1 lists items numbered 1 - 10. Page 2 also lists items numbered 1 - 10, and so on. Thanks for spotting

Re: Jump in a map

2009-06-24 Thread David Karger
the presidents map uses a coordinator such that when you click on a president in a timeline the map jumps to their place in the map. Marko wrote: Hello, Recently i've seen an exhibit map with links underneath where you could jump to a point in the map. Unfortunately, I have forgotten to

google maps exhibit with directions from here

2009-07-13 Thread David Karger
Someone just wished for something that I think would be a pretty useful addition to the Google maps view in exhibit. Namely, to let you enter your current location (or have it sensed on your mobile) and enable the gmaps sorted-by-distance list-of-results sidebar on the standard Google map

Re: Exhibit: Adding Hyperlinks and Embedded Flv video

2009-07-21 Thread David Karger
I suggest using google's method for filling in attributes, instead of trying to shove a whole blob of html into a field. So if you had a data item with {..., resource: http://homestarrunner.com/;, ...} you could arrange for that to appear by crafting a lens that contains a

Re: Exhibit which ran on IE 7 not now working, ? related IE 8 update

2009-07-27 Thread David Karger
Hi Carol. The exhibit codebase was updated to work with ie8, but you have to use the newer version of exhibit (version 2.2 instead of 2.0).Change this line in your file: script src=http://static.simile.mit.edu/exhibit/api-2.0/exhibit-api.js

Re: Changing SIMILE Exhibit link with IE 7 to IE 8 update - f/u to July 27th

2009-08-03 Thread David Karger
That's right; the two bad replacements refer to exhibit 2.0, which doesn't work with ie8. the working link points at the current version (right now 2.2) which does. Carol wrote: Hi, Just to thank everyone for the info on upgrading the exhibit link to resolve differences between IE7 and

Re: Exhibit: map view and collapsable spry asset don't work when loaded collapsed

2009-08-11 Thread David Karger
modifying your script links to point at the newest version of exhibit (at http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/) will probably fix your IE8 problems, and possibly some others. steff wrote: Hi Mark, thanks for your answer. 1. I didn't even know that IE 8 caused an error, thanks for

Re: Question about identifiers

2009-08-12 Thread David Karger
I've edited the wiki page to remove the id warning---it is fine, and in fact often very useful, to include an id field in your item, most obviously to disambiguate two different items with the same label (which may be what that wiki author meant about phantom items---sometimes you _want_ two

Re: Status of Backstage

2009-08-13 Thread David Karger
Backstage has was prototyped but has since been languishing due to lack of manpower. David wrote: I wanted to inquire as to the status of Backstage in terms of where it stands in the development process. Thank you. -- David L. Cohen, AICP

Re: trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api now broken in Chrome/Safari/IE8 (FireFox 3/3.5 ok)

2009-08-13 Thread David Karger
release. I also have a student working on incorporating the new timeline, but that will take longer and might miss the next release. Of course, these are just my preferences; the actual decision is up to dfhuynh. Niels Mayer wrote: David Karger kar...@mit.edu mailto:kar...@mit.edu wrote: Neils

Re: Help for a non-developer

2009-08-29 Thread David Karger
I will interject that you might find things a little easier if you crafted your timeline using the exhibit framework (http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit), which allows you to read the data in many formats (such as a spreadsheet) and not do any programming to set up the timeline. mleden wrote: Hi

[Simile-Widgets] Re: This from Google Maps Mania Blog

2009-09-01 Thread David Karger
Interesting. It looks like they wanted exhibit-type functionality (maps, faceted browsing) but went to the work of implementing it on the server side. I'm curious why they chose that approach instead of using our preexisting ready-made solution. Mark Lybrand wrote: Cool.

[Simile-Widgets] Re: SIMILE Exhibit and jQuery

2009-09-24 Thread David Karger
Things basically work. One thing to watch out for is that the Exhibit creators did not like jquery's capture of $ so they unbind that. instead you access jquery through SimileExhibit.jQuery or something similar. mleden wrote: I think that I've seen a thread about the use of both Exhibit and

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Dynamically updating Exhibit.

2009-09-24 Thread David Karger
here's a nice example of a dynamically updated exhibit: http://www.epispider.org/ nunb wrote: Hello, I wonder if it's possible to update Exhibit in real-time, with fresh data. Is there any way of getting data into Exhibit, other than this sequence in the html head? head link

[Simile-Widgets] Re: bib sorting by author

2009-09-29 Thread David Karger
exhibit has no notion of first author. I suspect it is sorting based on whichever author has the lexicographically first name. If you want to be able to sort on a specific (eg first) author, you need to stick that author into a different property and sort on that property. drdaniel wrote:

[Simile-Widgets] Re: if-not-exists? (how to provide alternate content in a lens)

2009-10-08 Thread David Karger
I suspect you can use ex:if (which also has an else) together with the exists() function in the test of the ex:if . you might hunt for documentation on that in the wiki. Dave Mee wrote: Hi everyone! So I can make a mailto: link with a name laid over it this way: div

[Simile-Widgets] Re: accessibility

2009-10-23 Thread David Karger
You are correct. Exhibit has the _potential_ to be much _better_ for screen readers than typical static pages, because the exhibit markup indicates more about the roles of various elements (think how a screen reader could present a facet as a list of selectable values, or of an audio lens

[Simile-Widgets] Re: exhibit: local vs remote json source

2009-11-04 Thread David Karger
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/How_to_make_an_exhibit_from_any_JSONP_data_source James Cummings wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 05:24, David R. Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: Note that the s-w.org examples use relative links to point to the data, which obviously won't work if you download

[Simile-Widgets] Re: facet question

2009-11-07 Thread David Karger
Kimee, the quick hack fix is to change the one line of javascript that modifies the font size based on scale. You will find it in the file cloud_facet.js, the line is elmt.style.fontSize = Math.ceil(100 + 100 * Math.log(1 + 1.5 * (entry.count - min) / range)) + %; if you replace this with

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit: Is it possible to select an exclusionary filter?

2009-11-14 Thread David Karger
If you select all values other than red, you'll get what you want. If you like, you can preconfigure the exhibit to start with all values other than red selected. lbjvg wrote: Hi all - Suppose I have a database of cars and among other things I have a facet for color selection. Suppose I hate

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit: Is it possible to select an exclusionary filter?

2009-11-15 Thread David Karger
I can't really follow your second paragraph as I don't see the logic of including something red when not-red is selected. But, in regard to your first paragraph, I think you get what you want by just preselecting all facet values, and allowing the user to _uncheck_ red if they want to exclude

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit: Is it possible to select an exclusionary filter?

2009-11-15 Thread David Karger
perhaps we could introduce an ex:negate=true attribute to the facet tag, if only we could figure out which negation semantics we wanted. One is for the checked values to denote the ones you are _not_ asking for---essentially, to invert the role of checked/not checked in the facet.

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit - How to selectively supress display of content based on value?

2009-11-19 Thread David Karger
yes, the if selects the first thing that follows; if the if-test fails, the second things is selected. lbjvg wrote: David - Both versions work. Thank you very much. The only caveat is that the scope seems to be whatever immediatly follows div ex:if="not(contains(.facet1, 'default

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Export generated HTML?

2009-12-03 Thread David Karger
if you click on the orange export scissors that exhibit generates, one of the options is generated html of this exhibit. if you want more interaction, you can use the firebug plugin for firefox. rodric wrote: Is there an easy way to take a look at the dynamically generated exhibits HTML?

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Export generated HTML?

2009-12-03 Thread David Karger
no, that will show you the original code, prior to dynamic modification by the Exhibit framework. David Radovanovic wrote: Use your browser's source code function; View Source Code via right click on browser window (in Windows). On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, rodric rod...@gmail.com

Re: [Simile-Widgets] after loading datamanipulation

2010-01-28 Thread David Karger
There is an ondataload event and an ex:ondataload attribute you can put in the body tag to insert some js at that time. I can't put my hands on the documentation right now but if you are inclined to browse the source code you should be able to find it. On 1/28/2010 6:39 AM, Sebastian Dietzold

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit: pre-filtered facets / pseudo-collections?

2010-02-05 Thread David Karger
right now you have many items with no label or id, which is making firefox complain a lot and preventing looking at your exhibit. On 2/5/2010 5:57 AM, Gracmon wrote: Hi all again, I'm having trouble with setting up hierarchical facets for my Exhibit

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline Not Working in IE

2010-02-07 Thread David Karger
have you tried giving the json to our babel validator? that can catch many problems. http://simile.mit.edu/babel/validator On 2/7/2010 11:51 PM, Praveen wrote: Hey Mark, Thanks for the reply. Your insight is mostly correct given the discrepancy between the two browsers. I still cannot find

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Exhibit in IE 8

2010-03-01 Thread David Karger
exhibit 2.2.0, which is available at simile-widgets.org, does work for ie8 On 3/1/2010 5:28 PM, Praveen wrote: Does Exhibit work in IE 8? I can't seem to get it to show anything. I am using Exhibit to display json data from a mysql database that is then displayed on the timeline. Sometimes I

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-02 Thread David Karger
funny, i just posted an announcement yesterday of a new tool for a WYSIWYG editable exhibit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/Exhibit/Dido/ It supports dynamic update of simile exhibits. You can edit the data right in the page exhibit view, then save the file to persist the changes. Right now,

[Simile-Widgets] Fwd: Announcing Dido, a WYSIWYG-editable exhibit

2010-03-03 Thread David Karger
said, alpha. You're sure to find plenty of bugs. But I'd love your feedback. -David Karger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SIMILE Widgets group. To post to this group, send email to simile-widg...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit in IE 8

2010-03-04 Thread David Karger
access. Line: 5913 Char: 156 Code: 0 URI: http://www.matchrounds.com/timeline/cool/exhibit-bundle.js On Mar 1, 5:06 pm, David Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: exhibit 2.2.0, which is available at simile-widgets.org, does work for ie8 On 3/1/2010 5:28 PM, Praveen wrote: Does Exhibit

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Fwd: Announcing Dido, a WYSIWYG-editable exhibit

2010-03-04 Thread David Karger
/exhibit/Dido/ As I said, alpha. You're sure to find plenty of bugs. But I'd love your feedback. -David Karger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SIMILE Widgets group. To post to this group, send email to simile-widg...@googlegroups.com

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-05 Thread David Karger
are from a single person, no concurrency for now). DB would be handy though if we were to expand to allow data updates from all our admin users, to handle locking and concurrency issues... thanks -k On Mar 2, 2:09 pm, David Karger kar...@mit.edu wrote: funny, i just posted an announcement

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Problem with loading xml-like file php script

2010-03-11 Thread David Karger
If you are manually editing a data file, Dido (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/exhibit/Dido) would let you do the editing in a less painful way: On 3/11/2010 4:13 PM, Frederic_L wrote: Me too ! I started to fill my datas in a json file. But as the data volume grows, it becomes difficult

Re: [Simile-Widgets] css for particular exhibit-facet-value?

2010-03-17 Thread David Karger
I'm not immediately sure how to support such styling but maybe you can use or learn from the following example that uses images for facet values: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/shrooms/shrooms.html On 3/17/2010 10:37 AM, Matt Gilbert wrote: is there a way to add classes to

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: textarea issue in FF

2010-04-06 Thread David Karger
If you are willing to settle for a textfield instead of a textarea, try input type=textfield ex:value-content=.textfield_content/textfield But as the comment says, you may also want to try Dido. Michiel wrote: Hi Ravi, I don't really understand why you want to use a textarea. Are you

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: timplot running in real time

2010-04-15 Thread David Karger
there's another one at epispider.org Michiel wrote: Hi, You are not the only one doing these kind of things, see for example: http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html for an automatically updated exhibit. Can't help you any further I am afraid. Michiel On Apr 13, 11:48 pm, David Draper

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Exhibit doesn't work in IE8

2010-04-27 Thread David Karger
you're example has a bunch of file:// urls for scripts; these will only load on your development machine. You need to put them on the web and switch to http: urls. On 4/27/2010 11:48 PM, John Callahan wrote: Take a look at how the scripts are loading in the page header. - John On Tue,

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Simile Server Down?

2010-05-12 Thread David Karger
In any case much of simile.mit is up only to support legacy sites; you should be migrating all your simile.mit dependencies to simile-widgets.org (which is running on much more robust hardware). On 5/12/2010 12:31 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: Seems to be back up. Axel 2010/5/12 Alejo BS

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Exhibit tabularView sort

2010-05-25 Thread David Karger
I don't think we've touched tabular view for a while. It has had small bugs for quite some time---in the sample presidents exhibit, try sorting by days in office On 5/25/2010 10:49 AM, johncallahan wrote: Has anyone experienced trouble sorting in the Exhibit TabularView on fields with

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Wiki server down?

2010-06-01 Thread David Karger
ok, wiki is back up---after suffering collateral damage from a machine migration. On 6/1/2010 3:27 AM, mwra wrote: I can't access any of the documentation pages at http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/. They seem to have been offline since at least last Friday, 28 May 2010. Or has the URL for

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline not showing in IE - error: 'start' is null or not an object

2010-06-15 Thread David Karger
your page links to http://webdev/ which doesn't resolve in most places/browsers. On 6/15/2010 7:28 AM, mwra wrote: The timeline doesn't show in either Firefox, Safari or Chrome. From Firefox is see the timeline object in /_js/timeline.js isn't initialising. Why, is probably hinted at by Safari

Re: [Simile-Widgets] bib tex importer not working?

2010-06-21 Thread David Karger
Please note that you should be migrating all references from simile.mit.edu to simile-widgtes.org. In particular, http://service.simile-widgets.org/babel/ will be more reliable than the simile.mit.edu babel. On 6/21/2010 7:57 AM, Antoine Blanchard wrote: Dear Dario, this happened to me

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Changing the values of facet on the fly

2010-06-21 Thread David Karger
am interested in the values taken by the facet themselves (not the label of the facet)… Antoine Le 21 juin 2010 à 14:36, David Karger a écrit : Most facets have an ex:facetLabel parameter that you can set to whatever value you like. e.g. div ex:role=facet ex:expression=.Author

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Changing the values of facet on the fly

2010-06-21 Thread David Karger
21 juin 2010 à 15:09, David Karger a écrit : Sorry, missed that. Add to your js (in a different file) {items: [ {type: translation, label: inproceedings, frenchName: en conference}, {type: translation, label: thesis, frenchName: these}, ... etc. Then set your facets

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Need an audio player in the bubble.

2010-06-29 Thread David Karger
you are welcome to use the code from the millionaire's exhibit. you can probably find what you want in this exhibit: http://www.musicedmagic.com/Exhibit/composers.html On 6/24/2010 7:53 AM, Manuel Portillo wrote: Hi there, I have two questions and I will very much appreciate your help on

Re: [Simile-Widgets] simile-widgets.org down ?

2010-07-05 Thread David Karger
I'll look into it but it may take some time given the holiday. I'm also going to start investigating an idea we've had for a way to run a second server to provide failover. In the meantime, as an emergency measure you may hotlink you script to the subversion repository (not recommend

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Exhibit Map: passing global variables

2010-07-07 Thread David Karger
http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/scripts/data/database.js but you shouldn't need to find it; just invoke it. On 7/7/2010 7:07 PM, martin wrote: Thanks for the info David, where do I find database.js ? it does not appear to live in:

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Embedding data as script tag instead of attachment.js

2010-07-08 Thread David Karger
Michael, I'm cleaning up old email and just found this. I'd like to direct your attention to Dido, http://projects.csail.mit.edu/exhibit/Dido which is a version of exhibit I built that incorporates the data into the same document. It also incorporates editing of the data and of the

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Embedding data as script tag instead of attachment.js

2010-07-08 Thread David Karger
were you using ie? there are some compatibility problems we are working on. if you found bugs using firefox, let me know---tool is still in active development. the tabular view dialog is primitive---you cannot use the menu to select expressions, and must instead enter them (comma separated) in

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Using SUM of INT field as item count in Exhibit

2010-07-26 Thread David Karger
I don't completely follow what you need; that would be easier if we could see the whole example exhibit instead of the json fragment. Are you trying to keep the json small or keep the exhibit output small? On 7/26/2010 5:02 AM, Harald Groven wrote: In an Exhibit, I have a JSON data source

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Announcing Dido, a WYSIWYG-editable exhibit

2010-07-26 Thread David Karger
connection to use it. You can find Dido athttp://projects.csail.mit.edu/exhibit/Dido/ As I said, alpha. You're sure to find plenty of bugs. But I'd love your feedback. -David Karger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups SIMILE Widgets group

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Semantic Media Wiki Exhibit

2010-07-29 Thread David Karger
You are correct. An early version of wibit read its data from a table in the wiki page. But as we evolved the tool we switched to a version that gets its data via semantic mediawiki ask queries. These are not remote; they go to the same wiki. See for example

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Semantic Media Wiki Exhibit

2010-07-30 Thread David Karger
spreadsheet aswell :/ i'll have to find a way to add a lot of wikipedia pages by template via spreadsheet,I haven't found one yet. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:50 PM, David Karger kar...@mit.edu mailto:kar...@mit.edu wrote: You are correct. An early version of wibit read its data from

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Documentation wiki not working on .edu

2010-08-12 Thread David Karger
Documentation should go to the new wiki at simile-widgets.org: http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/Exhibit Most documentation has been migrated. I must sheepishly mention that the _new_ wiki seems to be having technical difficulties at the moment, but that should get fixed quickly. On

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Documentation wiki not working on .edu

2010-08-12 Thread David Karger
ok, the wiki at simile-widgets.org should now be working and available for further contributed documentation. On 8/12/2010 11:18 AM, lostexpectation wrote: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit documentation wiki hasn't been working for a week, could some rescue this stuff and put it somewhere

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Pagination Not Working

2010-08-26 Thread David Karger
Apologies; the automatic trunk update process had been broken for some time. We got it working again which broke the trunk. I will spend today figuring out what wrong and fixing it. On 8/26/2010 9:24 AM, John Callahan wrote: I can also confirm that an error is being thrown when using

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Pagination Not Working

2010-08-26 Thread David Karger
ok, we have a partial fix by rollback; now it'll just complain about the api key but will otherwise work. On 8/26/2010 9:24 AM, John Callahan wrote: I can also confirm that an error is being thrown when using Exhibit trunk. It could be a spelling mistake or a language issue as the error is

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