I'm relatively new to Exhibit, since I've discovered this project just two weeks ago, but here is some feedback based on my observations so far:
- Exhibit 3 should not only have a markup-driven API (annotations in html attributes), but also a pure Javascript API. Right now almost everything is done via markup, but this can become cumbersome if you need to need to create an Exhibit instance on demand or with flexible configurations. I'm aware there is a usable pure-javascript API for Exhibit 2.0, but it seems to be a second class citizen (there is no introductory "pure javascript" example, the http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/API docs date from 2006). - Include better runtime debugging capabilities. In the days of firebug, I'm used to inspecting the properties and data of a widget via the firebug console if something doesn't behave as expected. Quite difficult with Exhibit's "magic markup" approach. Right now I'm trying to understand why my thumbnail view lists all items in the collection and not just the photo items, but I didn't even manage to dump out the contents of Exhibit's Database in firebug. - I miss some innovations facet-wise. You want to support up to 20 facets within an exhibit widget, but with even with just 5-7 list facets the available space is already cluttered. I think to achieve this core goal a new or improved facet type/facet manager has to be introduced. greetings from vienna, Franz On 14 Apr., 04:24, mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > The Exhibit 3.0 project is happy to announce the availability of a > proposed architecture for the new and improved Exhibit visualization > framework. This document is the result of work done by the project's > architecture team and our great advisory group, but now we're asking > for comments and questions from any of you who are interested in how > we propose to make Exhibit more scalable, modular, flexible and > usable. Please take a look and send us your thoughts! > > The document is linked fromhttp://simile-widgets.org/exhibit3/ > > Thank you! > > MacKenzie -- 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.
