This note should have been posted to the ADMIRAL project blog. In the spirit of "cool URIs" I'm leaving this stub here, and have copied the original text here [1].
[1] http://admiral-announce.blogspot.com/2010/07/project-partners-meeting-17-jun-2010.html
Thursday 17 June 2010
Wednesday 9 June 2010
File browsing interfaces working
The previous post hinted at a more usable interface for file selection for selecting workspace and data files.
The additional work has now been completed to provide a point-and-click style interface when opening files - as when opening a new workspace or loading a data file into a worksheet data card - when the underlying storage is accessed using webDAV. I feel this is an important step forward for Shuffl, and paves the way for building some properly usable applications on the underlying framework.
There do remain some usability problems that need to be resolved, such as improved diagnostics in the face of I/O errors, providing some mechanism to remove cards from a workspace, and improving the back-end storage handler configuration, but these are relatively modest developments compared with the file-browsing capabilities.
For testing, I have been using XAMPP with mod_dav enabled. A relatively modest subset of DAV capabilities is being used.
The additional work has now been completed to provide a point-and-click style interface when opening files - as when opening a new workspace or loading a data file into a worksheet data card - when the underlying storage is accessed using webDAV. I feel this is an important step forward for Shuffl, and paves the way for building some properly usable applications on the underlying framework.
There do remain some usability problems that need to be resolved, such as improved diagnostics in the face of I/O errors, providing some mechanism to remove cards from a workspace, and improving the back-end storage handler configuration, but these are relatively modest developments compared with the file-browsing capabilities.
For testing, I have been using XAMPP with mod_dav enabled. A relatively modest subset of DAV capabilities is being used.
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