Hello Franz, On 4/17/11 5:35 AM, jqueryui-vienna wrote: > 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).
Power users have all been bitten by this in the past, and it's an indication of how glaring and important it is that you've picked up on it in your brief exposure. We are looking to make this much better in Exhibit 3. > - 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 happen to know how to do this in Firebug, but it would be useful at this juncture to know how you expected this to work, in broad terms, if you could. > - 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. Do you have anything you could point to to demonstrate, or do you mean 'miss' in the sense you found it lacking? -- 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.
