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
>
>
> >
>   

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