Hi Steve, I was wondering if you and the other posters were using Timeline or Exhibit. (Or one of the other fine Simile libraries.)
Anyhow, I don't have much knowledge about Exhibit, but David H is an ace programmer. It may well be the case that the software looks to see if a certain library is already loaded, and, if not, it then loads it from MIT. In that case, the solution is for your html file to load the needed libraries (from your server) before the Exhibit code needs them. It could also be the case that something in the sw will need to be changed to enable you to host all of Exhibit on your server. In that case, I'm sure that David would be receptive to your patch. And your step by step instructions on how to locally host Exhibit would be very much appreciated by the community. Note that David sometimes dynamically adds script tags to the dom. In other words, he tells the browser to load libraries at runtime, not as a normal script tag inside of an html file. HTH, Larry ________________________________ From: Steve <[email protected]> To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:04:06 PM Subject: Re: simile.mit.edu down? Hi Larry, I agree hosting yourself makes the most sense and I've moved the source to my own server and I'm trying to run an app that uses Exhibit with the Google Maps extension but the problem is there appears to be references to things that aren't provided. For example, the painters (simile.mit.edi/painter...) for the map used in the map extension. I can't seem to find that anywhere, am I simply missing something? Also, the reference to static.simile... is hardcoded throughout the source so there appears to be no easy way to direct it to a server of your own. Having said those things, I understand this is open source thus I don't mind fixing the URL's myself (unfortunately, I don't have time right now to work on a better solution) but the missing piece are pretty crucial. -Steve On Dec 19, 9:54 am, Larry Kluger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > In my humble opinion, you are *far* better off hosting the libraries yourself > rather than depending on an .mit.edu server. > Like, night and day better off. > > The Yahoo folks have studied the issues of people's caches being primed and > the effect is, unfortunately, much less than what would be hoped for. > The odds of one of your clients having a cached version of the Simile > libraries from some other Simile-based page that is not connected to your app > are tiny. Or smaller. > > Be vertically integrated, host it yourself. > > Regards, > > Larry > > ________________________________ > From: Eric Pugh <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:52:19 AM > Subject: Re: simile.mit.edu down? > > Joern, > > We are seeing the same thing. I had made the assumption that this > site would be more reliable then hosting it ourselves, and allow the > possiblity that folks might already have the javascript cached > locally, however, maybe we are better off hosting it ourselves :-( > > I know Google had an effort to host some big javascript libraries, is > there anything like that for the Simile assets? > > Eric > > On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Jörn Clausen wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > I think simile.mit.edu is down. The site is not reachable, and so are > > sites still using the code hosted there. > > > Is this a planned downtime? Did I miss the EOL announcement?? > > > -- > > Joern Clausen > > [email protected] > >http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ > >http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 > |http://www.opensourceconnections.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
