X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Findex.markdown;h=d0cb8c433073eda270814a71ff73a9a48092777f;hb=d8748a0afe2f674734f5d2a1995b6059a613dd7c;hp=07be7c49865b857b9e9dde35ea5478b533ed1df1;hpb=c0a1a66693025f84a3336bf77ae5acdbe984a97e;p=mkws-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/index.markdown b/doc/index.markdown index 07be7c4..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 ----------------- @@ -27,13 +45,51 @@ 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 ------------- * This file. [PDF version] -* The README -- mostly technical details. - [PDF version] * The MKWS manual, including a reference section. [PDF version] * The MKWS developers' guide. @@ -71,8 +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,