What about doing as zotero does: serving the file with a special mime (?)
type?
On Sep 13, 2012 12:51 PM, "Steve Ridout" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 September 2012 14:10, Charles Parnot <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I agree it makes more sense for the clients to do their own integration
>> as they wish. It's quite a burden to place on the CSL editor developers,
>> particularly if no easy integration is done on the client side, and
>> particularly as the editor itself runs in the browser. So maybe instead
>> Steve can let the clients know what's the best option for the editor to
>> offer, e.g. a simple URL scheme? In the case of Papers, we have a number of
>> avenues we can take advantage of, like responding to a scheme like
>> papers2://csl/file/path/to/csl/file, or papers2://csl/url/path/to/csl/url.
>>
>> charles
>>
>
> Sorry for the delay responding.
>
> I doubt the papers2://csl/file/... scheme will be useful in this case
> since saving to the hard drive from a browser is tricky. I used a flash
> based plugin called downloadify which requires the user to specify the
> destination file path. Saving via pure javascript possible in Chrome but
> only to a sandboxed file system (
> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/) - if you could
> get the actual file path this would be OK, but I don't think you can.
>
> To use a papers2://csl/url/.. request you'll want to add some code to
> store the style on your server first. I've kept the demo
> site<https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor-demo-site> server
> pretty much stateless to keep things simple so I'm afraid I can't much help
> with this. I'm leaving it to the ref manager devs to override the load and
> save functions to get styles in and out of the editor which you should be
> able to do by following the documentation here:
> https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor/wiki. If there's
> anything in the core
> library<https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor> that
> stops you doing what you want, or that you don't understand, please let me
> know.
>
> Another option is passing the whole style in a data URI, e.g.
> papers2://csl/url/$CSL_DATA_URI . It would be easy to add links like this
> to the demo site for all the ref managers actually. If something like this
> would work, let me know and I'll add it.
>
> (Note: In Firefox I tried installing a style to Zotero using
> data:text/x-csl;base64,$ENCODED_CSL but it only worked for trivially small
> styles. The confirm dialog goes pure black for real styles,
> perhaps because it's trying to display the whole URL.)
>
> Steve
>
>
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Carles Pina <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On 5 September 2012 16:58, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the update, and the work, Steve.
>> >>
>> >> In the realm of "stuff everyone needs to think about and work on" (not
>> a critique of your work per se), I still think this is an example that
>> needs to be MUCH simpler.
>> >> One-click installs please. Hopefully we'll see some rigorous forking
>> of your repo!
>> >
>> >
>> > This is a task for the reference managers. The csl-editor project
>> > offers enough flexibility so $referenceManager can integrate nicely
>> > (see
>> https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor/wiki/Visual-Editor
>> > , more and better documentation about how to integrate csl-editor with
>> > $referenceManager to be written soon). We have a prototype here with
>> > one click installs (when this will be public I'll send a note here).
>> >
>> > Steve did a demoSite with the instructions that you have seen and as a
>> > example of how to use the cslEditor.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Carles Pina | Software Engineer
>> > http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/Carles-Pina/
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