[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] browser client update for 2014-04-23

[Bill Erickson]

Great points, Rogan and Dan.  Just to re-state: Hatch (Java shim) is not
required to use the client.  This continues to be a point of confusion,
though, so if there's some way we can keep this clear for everyone, I'm all
ears.  I'm not above putting a flashing marquee in the client.

This point is reiterated in various places:

http://evergreen-ils.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eg14_EG_2014_Bill_Erickson_Browser_Client.html#(10)
http://yeti.esilibrary.com/dev/pub/web-staff-log.html#_2013_12_03_what_about_workstations_printing
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:dev_notes

Also, for reference, here are the notes from the Hackaway discussions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QALWLD-vAjDV8HseQyE5j0Yc-93Nrl-1B00xeP_npak/edit

-b




On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Dan Wells <dbw2 at calvin.edu> wrote:

> >So why bother with a web based client?  I only had to write a very small
> >HTML5 app to realize it is a nightmarish moving target of pain.  Raise
> your hand if you would willingly use
> >HTML/CSS/DOM/JS for anything if it wasn't the lowest common demoninator
> that everything reads in an almost but
> >not quite incompatible way.  But it looks like most of those odd
> platforms just got dropped from consideration as hosts
> >for the new staff client, leaving only those that support the JRE.
>  Basically, newish Windows, OS X and Linux or the
> >same as Xulrunner and the current client.
>
> Two points.  First, the Java "shim" (aka hatch) will ideally not be
> required for staff client use, but only for certain special features (like
> printing) which are not well supported natively by the browser environment.
>  Second, since we are already communicating via a network protocol, there
> have been discussions of allowing the Java shim to run on a different
> machine on your local network to allow for hybrid use (e.g. taking
> inventory on a tablet but then printing from that tablet to a machine at
> the circ desk).
>
> Dan
>
>
> Daniel Wells
> Library Programmer/Analyst
> Hekman Library, Calvin College
> 616.526.7133
>



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