Hey,
That definitely looks better the the current UI. However before starting to
make such changes, I think we should asses how much effort it would be to
get the query UI written by Devayon Das as part of GSoC 2011 finished up
and have that replace ask.
It can be seen working here:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:QueryCreator
The code is in special/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialQueryCreator, SMW_QueryUI and
SMW_QueryUIHelper.
I'd much prefer this over continuing work on Special:Ask, as the code has
really become a mess over the years, and there is a lot of stuff there that
should be in separate components, so they can be maintained loose from Ask,
and also be used by other query UIs. I'm not sure this new code is much
better then ask in that regard (as I'm not familiar with it), but it's
probably already a step in the right direction. Markus can probably comment
on this in greater detail.
> Jeroen, I don't not why but getStrInput (class ParameterInput ) sets the
input field size to 32
At some point I abstracted out the input generation code and made it a bit
more generic. However, there is still a lot of work to be done there. We
can have much smarter inputs now all the parameter definition information
is available :)
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
_______________________________________________
Semediawiki-devel mailing list
Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
