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.
- John David Huynh wrote: > John Callahan wrote: > >> Thank you very much for this addition. I will definitely be using this >> feature. >> >> > Thanks for trying it out! > > >> I just tried it out on the latest versions of Chrome 2, IE 7, FF 3. >> Worked great on the Tabular view but no luck on the Tile or Thumbnail >> views. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but it seems very >> straightforward. No significant messages in Firebug. Here is the >> Exhibit I'm using (site is in VERY early stages of development): >> >> http://dev.dgs.udel.edu/publications >> >> > It's a small bug... should be fixed now. > > >> Some quick thoughts: >> >> 1. Could the location of the pager be an option? Something like >> ex:pageLocation: "top", "bottom", "topbottom" (My preference would be >> bottom as there's already so much going on at the top.) >> >> > Done! It's ex:pagingControlLocations. See it's used here (need > shift-reload to get the latest code) > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/nobelists/nobelists.html > > >> 2. Just a possible suggestion but you could use HTML list elements (ul, >> li) and style them to look the same as now. This usually offers more >> flexibility when altering the style. (not sure how you would add that >> style and allow it to be overridden by local css files???) >> >> > Is that possible? I'm afraid that the bullets can't be inserted only > between the page numbers. If using a bulleted list, then there would > also be a bullet in front of page 1. Furthermore, I'm not sure how to > support "..." using a bulleted list. > > >> 3. Could you add a title (and alt) attribute to the page anchors to say >> something like "Page 2" or "Go to Page 2". This would be for mouse >> tooltips and screen readers. >> >> > Done. Localized as a function at the bottom of > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/locales/en/scripts/ui/views/ordered-view-frame-l10n.js > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/locales/en/scripts/ui/views/tabular-view-l10n.js > > >> 4. Could you add an ID to the span tags surrounding the dots in between >> the page numbers? When styling (such as inside an existing site), I >> may want to remove them completely or use my own images, can be done >> using getElementById(#spanid).innerHTML = ... I like how the selected >> page has it's own unique class so that can be styled separately. >> >> > Those are actually localized here > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/locales/en/scripts/ui/views/ordered-view-frame-l10n.js > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/api/locales/en/scripts/ui/views/tabular-view-l10n.js > Those strings can be html snippets, so you can put images, too. > > >> 5. I noticed that the pager goes away if only one page is present. >> Could the pager not disappear? Even if it simply stated "1" or maybe >> have the some text grayed out saying something like "1 page in >> results"... I'm not sure. From a user perspective, if the number of >> results is very close to the same number as items/page, it can be >> confusing. From a web design perspective, it's be nice is that area of >> the page didn't move. >> >> > Done: ex:alwaysShowPagingControls="true", also used at > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/nobelists/nobelists.html > > >> 6. Will this replace (and make obsolete) the showAll and >> abbreviatedCount parameters in the Thumbnail view? If not, which would >> take precedence? >> >> > If ex:paginate="true" then this takes precedence. > > >> 7. Would having the pager turned on (say for 20 items per page) improve >> performance for Exhibits with several hundred records? It would save >> time in writing to the browser but that's not very much. Just curious... >> >> > It should certainly reduce the rendering time, but the time to load the > data initially and the time to sort the items are still the same. > > David > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
