[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client update for 2014-04-11

Mon Apr 14 12:46:15 EDT 2014

I'm unable to login with the default browser, but I was able to log in fine with the Firefox app (I'm using a Galaxy Note II running Android 4.3). The number of columns doesn't display well, but once I hid some of them it worked well. Sorting and selecting/unselecting work great, even copy and paste work well (and since it uses different visual cues than the desktop browser for displaying what you have selected to copy, it was easy to see the difference there). 

The only thing that caused me a problem while viewing on my phone was that the status bar at the bottom cut off the bottom 2 rows of my patron search results.

Terran McCanna 
PINES Program Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Suite 150 
Atlanta, GA 30345 
404-235-7138 
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Erickson" <berick at esilibrary.com>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Cc: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 11:58:34 AM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client update for	2014-04-11

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, McCanna, Terran < tmccanna at georgialibraries.org > wrote: 

I agree with Rogan, the previous one was more attractive but this is more functional. I think the paging controls, the sorting, and the selecting/unselecting are all very intuitive. 

The only thing I see so far that will throw off users is that when I highlight a bit of text in preparation for copying it, the UI highlights the entire row and marks it selected - when I ctrl-c, it does copy just the text I highlighted, but the visual cues are confusing. 

Hmm, yeah, we may have to detect double-click and avoid row selection in that case. 

Should we be able to log in via mobile devices? Or is the certificate issue preventing this at the moment? 

Mobile login should work. I can't vouch for every device, but I am able to log in with my Nexus. 

Fair warning on the grids... To build these with the level of flexibility required (arbitrary column counts and column resizing being the big ones), we had to step outside of the Bootstrap mobile-friendly CSS and use something called flexbox (which is native to modern browsers) instead. This means the grids today are not very mobile friendly. However, flexbox is div-based and very *cough* flexible, so we have the option of applying mobile CSS specifically to the grid. 

-b 

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