Re: [Semediawiki-user] [News] Timeline moves from SMW to SRF

[Samuel R. <sa...@ri...>]

Hi Markus,

This sounds excellent, I take it that Google Maps would utilise the same
framework if it gets added?

Thanks,

Samuel Richardson
Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

Have you added your business to the Melpedia yet? http://www.melpedia.com.au


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Markus Krötzsch <
ma...@se...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as announced earlier, SMW has established a separate extension "Semantic
> Result Formats" (SRF) for collecting useful additional printout formats for
> queries [1]. The idea is that complex formats that are not maintained as
> the
> core of SMW are separated, yet easy to install.
>
> The popular "timeline" format now has been moved from SMW to SRF. SMW 1.4
> will
> be the first release where this is effective, and users using timeline
> (or "eventline") will have to install SRF to continue using it. There will
> be
> an accompanying release of SRF to simplify this; installation is really
> easy
> and no changes on the wiki pages are required.
>
> The reason for the move is that timeline is rather heavy (lots of
> JavaScript)
> for SMW core. It also includes a lot of code that is not maintained by the
> SMW Project. Further useful formats will be added to SRF over time. So it
> is
> mostly an organisational change, but also an effort to make SMW yet more
> configurable for user needs.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
> [1]
>
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticResultFormats
>
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> Markus Krötzsch
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