From 93790660d03d6a675bf0f8d9a862ea9afe2de1b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Taylor Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:46:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] New file, README.markdown. Will replace plain-text README, but translation is not yet complete. --- tools/htdocs/README.markdown | 146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 146 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/htdocs/README.markdown diff --git a/tools/htdocs/README.markdown b/tools/htdocs/README.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a05948b --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/htdocs/README.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +% An embryonic MasterKey Widget Set +% Mike Taylor; Wolfram Schneider +% 10 July 2013 + + +This directory contains an embryonic MasterKey Widget Set. The initial +version was based on the "jsdemo" application distributed with +pazpar2, but it is now far removed from those beginnnings. + + +How this works +-------------- + +The goal is to make it that as much of the searching functionality as +possible is hosted on + +so that very simple websites such as + +can have MasterKey searching with minimal effort. + +The following files are hosted on mkws.indexdata.com: + +* `mkws.js` +* `mkwsStyle.css` +* `/libjs-pz2/pz2api.1.js` + +The following files make up an application: + +* `index.html` +* `favicon.ico` [_optional_] +* `robots.txt` [_optional_] + + +Configuring a client +-------------------- + +The application's HTML must contains the following elements as well as +whatever makes up the application itself: + +Prerequisites: + + + + + +(Yes, we're using JQuery. We use it only in the most trivial ways, and +could probably get rid of it without too much pain. I'd like to have +mkws.js automatically pull in pz2api.1.js, too, so you don't need to +do so many things, but that's not quite trivial.) + +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 + +At present, MKWS will not work correctly if any of these is +missing. One of the TODOs is to fix it so that it doesn't try to use +whatever is not there, and just uses what is. + + +You can configure and control the client with the JavaScript mkws_config object. + +Here is an example of all possible options + + +Note: the mkws_config object which must be loaded before the mkws.js and pz2api.js files. + + +jQuery plugin +------------------ + +The jQuery plugin version, consisting of a single line of JavaScript code + + + +put the code in your page at the position where the metasearch should occours. + +Here is an example of all possible options + + jQuery.pazpar2({"layout": "popup", /* "table", "div", "popup", default is table */ + "id_button": "input#mkwsButton", /* submit button id in search field */ + "id_popup": "#mkwsPopup", /* interal id of popup window */ + "width": 880, /* popup width, should be at least 800 */ + "height": 760 /* popup height, should be at least 600 */ + }); + + +Supported Browsers +------------------ + +Any modern HTML5 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 + +New Features since jsdemo +-------------------------- +- multilinguality: English (default), Danish, German +- depends on the new pazpar2 JS library libjs-pz2/pz2api.1.js + which will make the development of pazpar2 plugins faster and + easier to share code between projects +- supports basic pazpar2 and service-proxy requests +- simplified HTML +- the search page is fully configurable by a JSON object + + +What next? +---------- + +Main areas of work: +* Make MKWS robust to missing widgets +* Clean up the code -- 1.7.10.4