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diff --git a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/about.html b/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/about.html deleted file mode 100644 index 69fba5a9d..000000000 --- a/src/runtime/javascript/minibar/about.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,180 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> <head> -<title>About Minibar</title> -<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="minibar.css"> -<meta charset="UTF-8"> -</head> - -<body> -<h1>About Minibar</h1> - -<a href="minibar.html">Minibar</a> is an alternative implementation of the -<a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">GF</a> web app -<a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org:41296/fridge/">Fridge Poetry</a>. -It doesn't do everything the original Fridge Poetry does (e.g. drag-and-drop is missing), -so I refer to it as a minibar rather than a full refrigerator :-) - -<p> -Some implementation details: - -<ul class=space> - <li>It is implemented directly in JavaScipt. It does not use Google Web Toolkit or any big JavaScript libraries. - <li>It has been tested and found to work in the following browsers: - <ul> - <li>On the Mac: Firefox 3.5 & 3.6, Safari 4.0, Opera 10.10 and - Google Chrome 4.0.249.49. - <li>On Linux: Firefox 3.0.18 & 3.5, Opera 10.10. - <li>On the Android Dev Phone: Android Mobile Safari 3.0.4 & 3.1.2 - and Android Opera Mini 4.2. - </ul> - It does not seem work in Internet Explorer 7 - (there are both styling and scripting issues). - There seems to be some rendering bugs in Chrome 5.0.342.9 β. - <li>The implementation consist of two JavaScript files: - <a href="minibar.js">minibar.js</a> and <a href="support.js">support.js</a> - The latter is also used in - <a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/swe/forskning/saldo/ordspel">a couple of - small web apps</a> based on the - <a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sal/ws/">SALDO web services</a>. - <li>To access the GF web service, it uses the - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP">JSONP method</a> - mentioned in the GF - web services paper, which allows the web app to be hosted on a different server - from the GF web service. (To demonstrate this, I put the Minibar demo on - www.cs.chalmers.se, while the GF server that it calls is on - www.grammaticalframework.org.) - <li>As an experiment, it does no use the <code>grammars.xml</code> file, - but instead calls a little CGI script, - <a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org:41296/grammars/grammars.cgi.txt">grammars.cgi</a> - which lists the .pgf files in the directory, in JSONP format. - (Note: if you want to install this on your own computer, - <ul> - <li>if you click on the link, - the CGI script will be downloaded as <code>grammars.cgi.txt</code>, - but it should be called <code>grammars.cgi</code> and stored on the server - in the same directory as the grammar files. - <li>for CGI scripts to work with lighttpd, <code>"mod_cgi"</code> needs - to be included in the definition of <code>server.modules</code> in the - <code>lighttpd.conf</code> file.) - </ul> - <li>[Added 2010-02-16] There is a button for generating random sentences. - <li>[Added 2010-02-23] All translations are shown, not just the first one, - if there are multiple parses. - <li>[Added 2010-02-25] Next to each translation, there is now a little tree - icon that you can click on to see a drawing of an abstract syntax tree or a - parse tree. If you click on a drawing it collapses back into a tree icon. - <li>[Added 2010-04-09] Preparations to support different ways to access the - grammar: currently we access a PGF server via JSONP, but I would also like - to support AJAX, and local/downloaded JavaScript grammars. - <li>[Added 2010-04-19] A text entry field appears when you click in - the sentence area (with a dashed border). This allows you to enter words by - typing on the keyboard. As you start typing word magnets that don't match what - you are typing are removed. When only one magnet remains, you can press enter - to complete the word. - <li>[Added 2010-04-19] There is a menu for choosing the output language: - you can pick "All" to translate to all available languages, or pick one - particular language. - <li>[Added 2010-04-19] You can pass options to the function - <code>start_minibar</code> to customize the user interface. The default is - <code>{show_abstract:true,show_trees:true}</code> to show the abstract syntax - of parsed sentences, and to show icons that expand to syntax/parse trees next - each translation. - These features can be turned off by setting the fields to <code>false</code>. - <li>[Added 2010-04-30] The grammar menu is omitted if there is only one - grammar in the grammar list. - <li>[Added 2010-04-30] Fewer hardwired constants and new - <code>start_minibar</code> options (server, grammars_url, grammar_list, - show_grouped_translations, delete_button_text) to make - <code>minibar.js</code> more resuable.) - <li>[Added 2010-05-26] The magnets are now created with - <code><input type=button></code> tags to make them clickable in more - browsers. - <li>[Added 2010-05-26] The text entry field is now visible from the start, - and it is removed when no more words can be added to the sentence. When you - press enter, a word is added if there is only one magnet left, - <em>or</em> if what you have entered exactly matches one of the remaining - magnet. - <li>[Added 2010-05-28] Added a link to make it easy to try the same sentence in - <a href="http://translate.google.com">Google Translate</a>.This can be - turned off by passing the option <code>{try_google:false}</code> to - <code>start_minibar</code>. - <li>[Added 2010-06-02] Added support for Help and Feedback buttons, controlled - by the options <code>feedback_url</code> and <code>help_url</code> passed to - <code>start_minibar</code>. - <li>[Added 2010-06-02] New option: <code>default_source_language</code>. - <li>[Added 2010-09-10] Minibar now automatically uses - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest">XHR</a> - instead of JSONP when possible (i.e. when the HTML document and the - PGF service are on the same server). - <li>[Added 2010-09-10] The default input language is now the user's preferred - language, if possible. This is implemented by consulting the - <code>userLanguage</code> field in the grammar info output by pgf-server. - <li>[Added 2010-10-27] Keyboard input and completion should now work much - more smoothly: - <ul> - <li>When you press space, the current word will be completed (if incomplete) - and a new magnet will be created. If there is more than one possible - completion, no magnet is created, but the common prefix of the possible - completions is added to the text box. - <li>Instead of asking the server for possible completions every time a new - letter is added to the curent word, minibar only ask for completions for - whole words and then filters the list locally when more letters are entered, - speeding things up when server responses are slow. - </ul> - <li>[Added 2010-10-27] Code restructuring: - <ul> - <li>The PGF server API has been moved to its own file: - <a href="pgf_online.js">pgf_online.js</a>. This - allows it to be reused in other applicaitons without importing the entire - minibar. It also allows minibar to be used with different server - interfaces. <a href="minibar.html">minibar.html</a> has been updated to - show how you use the new <a href="minibar.js">minibar.js</a> and - <a href="pgf_online.js">pgf_online.js</a>. - <li>The minibar code has been rewritten to avoid storing state information - in the document tree and accessing it by referring to named document - elements. The code now also avoids using string literals containing - the names of top-level functions to specify event handlers for buttons - and menus. (The code is no longer introspective, so α conversion - will not change its meaning.) - </ul> - <li>[Added 2010-11-09] Some new documentation: - <ul> - <li><a href="gf-web-api-examples.html">gf-web-api-examples.html</a>: - examples illustrating the PGF server API provided by - <a href="pgf_online.js">pgf_online.js</a>. - <li><a href="example.html">example.html</a>: a minimal example of a web - page that uses <a href="pgf_online.js">pgf_online.js</a> to talk to the - PGF server. - </ul> - <li>[Added 2011-03-03] Added a button to display word alignment. - <li>[Changed 2011-03-22] Don't force focus to the typed input field - after every word. On touch-based devices, the on-screen keyboard kept - popping up after every word, which was very annoying if you were - entering a sentence by tapping on the magnets. - <li>[Changed 2011-08-03] Moved the initialization code in minibar.html to - <a href="minibar_online.js">minibar_online.js</a>. - <li>[Changed 2011-08-08] For improved modularity and reusability, - two smaller objects have been factored out from the Minibar object: - Input and Translations. These have been placed in two separate files: - <a href="minibar_input.js">minibar_input.js</a> and - <a href="minibar_translations.js">minibar_translations.js</a>. - Some common auxiliary functions have also been moved to a separate file: - <a href="minibar_support.js">minibar_support.js</a>. - <li>[Added 2011-08-09] Added some <a href="minibar-api.html">Minibar API</a> - documentation. - <li>[Changed 2011-08-22] Quick fix to allow literals to be entered: - if you press Enter, the current word will be accepted, even if there are no - matching completions. - (You can now use names of people when constructing sentences in the Letter - grammar, for example.) -</ul> - -<hr> -<small class=modtime> -<!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Mon Aug 22 19:31:37 CEST 2011 <!-- hhmts end --> -</small> -<address> -<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/">TH</a> -<img src="http://www.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/online.cgi?icon" alt=""></address> -</address> -</body> </html> |