The Tile View also offers an abbreviatedCount option to only display the first 20 or so items, with a link to "show all results". (http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/2.0/Tile_View)
Something else to try is pre-selecting a facet option. For example, a random/featuered item from the Topic or Type facets could be pre-selected. Or the current day of the week in the Day facet. Drupal is known for pages taking a while to load. There are a lot of factors that determine this. I would suggest testing the Exhibit completely separate from Drupal in a static HTML page. I'd also test the Drupal page without the Exhibit (use the Devel module) to test loading times of different components of the page. Something I would love to investigate further (based on those two links in my last email) is a trick I've used often with online mapping. (Before Google Maps, and even somewhat now, online maps are notorious for long page loads.) I would load a static jpeg map while the real maps and functions would continue to load. The user would think the map loaded immediately and by the time they glanced at the map and through a few options around the page, the full mapping data would be ready to go. In this case for the EDUCAUSE Conference, maybe instead of the "Working" flash screen, there would be text to select among the days of the week, presentation types, and/or topics. The api would load in the background; maybe the data as well. A selection would then generally load the data with a pre-selected facet. Obviously, other possibilities are there. The thought being to distract the user while the page first loads. It worked great with mapping. :-) Just a quick note...I'm a bit familiar with EDUCAUSE and the speaker university/organization might be a good facet to use here. Good luck with the rest. I think the site looks and feels great! - John ************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: [email protected] http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** Matt Pasiewicz wrote: > > If you use the tile (default) > > view instead, it should be slightly faster. > > Thanks! I'll try that. > > > Of course, patches are always welcomed > You bet. If I can make the case for deployment and integration in > lots of areas of our org, I can easily see us submitting patches ... > we do this for other projects we've been involved with ... I just have > to get us passed the initial boundaries. > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Huynh <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > The tabular view is known to be slow because it renders all the > items at > once and there is no setting to break the items into pages. It's > one of > those long-standing issues that eventually I'll try to get to. Of > course, patches are always welcomed :) If you use the tile (default) > view instead, it should be slightly faster. > > David > > Matt Pasiewicz wrote: > > Ah drat ... just realized that I'd been pointing a file to one > of our > > dev sites, so it was resolving fine for me here locally, but would > > fail for everyone else ... sorry about that! Should be back in > action > > now. > > > > http://www.educause.edu/E2009/EDUCAUSE2009Programtest/171882 > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, David R. Karger <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > I've just tried it from a different computer at a different > > institution > > and it is still blank. > > firefox both times. > > > > Matt Pasiewicz wrote: > > > Interesting that folks are having trouble with the url ... can > > you check > > > again? Everything seems to be functional, but w/ two > reports of > > > inaccessibility, I hesitate to suggest it was just a blip. > And > > yes, I am > > > using drupal, but I'm not (yet) using the exhibit module/views > > ... the json > > > is static. I only have 400+ records, so perhaps all the other > > javascript on > > > the page is exaggerating the problem. > > > I'll also take a peak at the other two messages you mentioned. > > > Let me know if you're still unable to access this page ... > > > http://www.educause.edu/E2009/EDUCAUSE2009Programtest/171882 > > > > > > Many thanks! > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
