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-Adam, Wolfram, Jakub and I just had a ninety-minute meeting to look at
-MKWS (the MasterKey Widget Set) and discuss how to progress it.
-
-I won't bother trying to summarise the discussion, just the
-conclusions.
-
-1. We really like the concept, though Jakub is wary about the danger
- of reinventing the wheel.
-
-2. We're happy with the distinction between two levels of MK2
- integration: MKWS for entry-level HTML programmers; and more
- sophisticated customers who want more control can roll their own
- MasterKey Client based on MK2-UI-core.
-
-3. To avoid that wheel-reinventing, we want MKWS to itself be built on
- the UI core. To pick a concrete benefit: Wolfram has invested some
- effort to make MKWS multi-lingual; but had it been based on the UI
- core, he could have put that work into the core, and all other MK2
- UIs would have benefitted from it.
-
-4. We plan therefore to re-engineer MKWS to use the UI core -- or,
- which might be a faster route to the same destination, to redo the
- MKWS work but starting from a core-based UI instead of from
- JSDemo. (This is in accordance with the experimental nature of the
- work we've been doing -- what we're currenty referring to as "the"
- MKWS code is actually one of several threads within the
- "experiments" directory.)
-
-5. Because we want to enable smooth demos at ALA this coming weekend,
- we are NOT going to begin the re-engineering until after ALA,
- instead concentrating on getting the current MKWS experiment to
- work as cleanly as possible.
-
-6. We want to establishing some demo sites that use MKWS, ready to be
- shown to prospective customers. We think the best approach is to
- pick three sites that currently have no searching (for example,
- Dennis's site and one of my own) and add minimal MKWS code to
- each. Then Seb will be able to demo the small HTML/JS changes in
- those sites.
-
-7. To make these demos work, we will need to solve the problem of
- cross-site scripting, allowing those sites to make Service Proxy
- requests. This is the top programming priority (and what I will
- start working on as soon as I've sent this message!)
-
-8. After some back-and-forth, we decided that we would eliminate the
- current use of jQuery. (We're not doing anything at all clever with
- it -- basically just node-selection and HTML-building). Life is
- simpler without the dependency, and the danger of colliding with a
- different jQuery version in use on the customer's site.
-
-9. We'd like to have mkws.js include pz2api.1.js on its own, so that
- the customer's HTML only has to do a single JS include. Not a big
- deal, but it just makes the demos look more lightweight.
-
-10. We really like the explicitness of the configuration hash that
- Wolfram's introduced, and the way it defaults intelligently when
- elements of it are omitted (or indeed when the whole thing is
- omitted). We'd like to add a config element that tells the results
- page to pop up in front of the main website, like the Google CSE
- results do on http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/
-