The viewer is now Ext 1.0 ready, and the administration program is almost there. The revised viewer is now online in the demo site. This means I can get back to adding features instead of just getting features working again.
March 7, 2007
Got a copy of David's files for VI history. Will use those as base for my code for newspaper archives.
So far have created files that make the database connection and do a couple of simple queries. Next will be writing the code that parses the get arguments in the URL and figures out what to do with search page based on those values.
...arising out of discussions with Greg and tests of his redesign of the site:
- We should take the JavaScript code used for note display in EMLS and re-purpose it for displaying notes in text documents, and teasers in the document index. The old system based on the target pseudo-class doesn't work reliably on Opera, and causes some jumping in other browsers. We can leave it in place, though, to handle the cross-document linking between notes in images and texts.
- The menu should be a single button which shows and hides a drop-down menu. This reduces clutter, and enables us to have the same menu on the image markup pages.
- Document titles, where they are too long, should ideally be replaced by an editor's preferred short title. However, in the meantime, we can truncate them more aggressively because you'll be able to click on them and see teasers.
- The links to various document formats can be removed from the table and put into the teasers instead. This will again reduce clutter (but it does require that teasers work on all browsers, so we must abandon the CSS-only approach).
- We should clean up the original images and the reduced-size versions, using Greg's GIMP procedure. They'll look much clearer.
- We need to have the look installed by the end of the week so that we can create posters and a handout based on it, for the Showcase.
Drafted info for Mark Roman in his role as respondent in the Moodle panel. Reused to send to other panelists.
Spoke to Sandy Bligh at length about the funding issues, drafted the email, had her confirm, and passed it along to the dean.
Met with various humanities folks.
Pat and I discussed various issues relating to facility management.
Attended to showcase items. Met with Chris Petter and David about posters for Scraps and IMaP. Agreed on two 11x17 posters on backing. David and Chris will send materials to me, and I will forward them to Greg Fanning.
I had three meetings in CASS yesterday, one in Humanities. Each went approximately an hour and a half.
After some investigation, it seems likely that it's our logging settings that are bumping up the size. The sessions and hitlog tables have tens of thousands of entries. I've reduced the logging days from 15 to seven, and instructed to db to prune the older entries. We'll wait and see how much effect that has.