X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Findex.markdown;h=d0cb8c433073eda270814a71ff73a9a48092777f;hb=23fbc9b73a9f01cb8480604964e6fcf0e1c9307b;hp=2f4a06947f4a08c93f8425f65605ae32b82e1a6b;hpb=7bac0889ac2cf1032c4eceb2334f7d348d7c78a0;p=mkws-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/index.markdown b/doc/index.markdown index 2f4a069..d0cb8c4 100644 --- a/doc/index.markdown +++ b/doc/index.markdown @@ -10,9 +10,27 @@ The MasterKey Widget Set provides the easiest possible way to enhance an existing web-site with customised searching across multiple sources, ranking and merging the results. -All you need to do is pull in our JavaScript and optional stylesheet, -then add `
`s to your page that have special `class` attributes. We -do the rest. +As much of the searching functionality as possible is hosted on + so that very simple applications such as + can have MasterKey +searching with minimal effort. All you need to do is pull in our +JavaScript and optional stylesheet, then add `
`s to your page +that have special `class` attributes. We do the rest. + +Supported Browsers +------------------ + +Any modern browser will work fine. JavaScript must be enabled. + +* IE8 or later +* Firefox 17 or later +* Google Chrome 27 or later +* Safari 6 or later +* Opera 12 or later +* iOS 6.x (iPhone, iPad) +* Android 4.x + +Not supported: IE6, IE7 A minimal example ----------------- @@ -20,21 +38,62 @@ A minimal example Here is a completely functional (though ugly) MKWS-based searching application: - +
That's it. A complete metasearching application. Everything else is refinement. +Configuring a client (short version) +------------------------------------ + +The application's HTML must contains the following elements as well as +whatever makes up the application itself: + +Prerequisites: + +~~~ + + +~~~ + +Then the following special `
`s can be added (with no content), and +will be filled in by MKWS: + +* `
` -- switch between record and target views +* `
` -- switch between English, Danish and German +* `
` -- search box and button +* `
` -- result list, including pager/sorting +* `
` -- target list, including status +* `
` -- summary statistics + +You can configure and control the client by creating an `mkws_config` +object before loading the widget-set. Here is an example showing how +to use options to offer a choice between English and German UI +languages, and to default to sorting by title ascending: + +~~~ + +~~~ + +For much more detail, see: +[Embedded metasearching with the MasterKey Widget Set](mkws-manual.html) + Documentation ------------- -* The README -- mostly technical details. +* This file. + [PDF version] * The MKWS manual, including a reference section. - This is a much better introduction. + [PDF version] * The MKWS developers' guide. + [PDF version] Tools ----- @@ -68,8 +127,7 @@ Minified versions of the MKWS JavaScript files are also available: * mkws.min.js * mkws-complete.min.js -Versions --------- +### Specific versions The links above to the various forms of the widget-set JavaScript (mkws.js,