EMLS

TASK: Tweak to JavaScript for showing notes

(Mins: 10)

I'm presuming I've completed this, because the code is working on all the current browsers...

James C. on the TEI list suggested that clicking again on a note anchor should hide the note that was shown; look at implementing that. Also, the code uses offsetTop to position the note; that's probably a bit too loose, so we need to implement the solution from the Devonshire project, using the findPos() function at the end of this file.

TASK: Update on the innerHTML issue

(Mins: 20)

I've gradually evolved a policy for handling XHTML and its mime type. We've determined that there's no reliable way to get good results if you serve XHTML as application/xml+xhtml, so unfortunately the policy for the moment is to serve them as text/html using the xhtml11_compat serializer. See the following posts for more background:

I need to check that EMLS is doing that for all pages, and check that the search works OK on all supported browsers.

Fixed a bad link in the menu

(Mins: 5)

The link to the blog was pointing at the old location instead of the current blog URL.

Found the cause of a Safari problem

(Mins: 90)

The search page was failing to show results in Safari. Running a search would result in "DOM exception 7", which is "NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR", whenever I the JavaScript tried to set the innerHTML of an element.

This flummoxed me for ages, until I finally figured out that it's caused by the response header of the page. If the page is server as application/xhtml+xml then Safari presumably considers innerHTML inappropriate, since the page is not HTML. If the page is served as text/html, then it works. This is logical, if rather infuriating. For now, I've set the search page to serve as text/html using the xhtml11_compat serializer. I'll now go and investigate ways to use proper DOM methods rather than innerHTML, which is a non-standard hack in any case (although it's supported by all browsers).

EMLS browser test

(Mins: 0) The EMLS search capability doesn't work in Safari -- there's no response at all. I also noticed that the logo is overlapping the text in IE7, but I'll try to fix that. Logo position is now fixed.

Discussions with Karin about remaining tasks

(Mins: 20)

Just posting minutes spent looking at what is completed, and discussing what should be done.

XML as corpus

(Mins: 5) Ray requested that a link to grab the entire xml corpus of the archive be added.

PDF request

(Mins: 5) Ray has requested PDF output of each article and issue. Page numbering should be disregarded, as they are not present in the original.

Added alternate stylesheet link

(Mins: 10)

Karin's old stylesheet is still on the site, and is now available as an option in the browser View menu.

Changes to TOC

(Mins: 45)

Implemented these changes requested by Ray:

Remove the View column, in favour of...
The title of the article should click through to the XHTML version.
Give the XML and Text links a class, so they can be styled small and icon-like.
The Vol/Issue column can simply read Issue.