[ckan-dev] recline UX

Tue Jun 26 07:21:37 UTC 2012

Hi,

I am wondering what can be the user experience when viewing a resource in 
CKAN. 
The visualisation offered by recline is great but for the average user it 
can lead to some surprise or incomprehension.
Firstly, if the resource is not in a csv format, it will only display a 
red line. 
Wouldn't it be better to check the resource's format before display? 
On the resource metadata notice, there are 3 field to specify mime type. 
What are they used for ? 
The first one seems to display a format icon but the other 2 : what is the 
difference between type mime and type mime (inner) ?

Secondly, if the format is csv is it possible to display polygons or 
points in the map view whatever the geographic projection ? By default it 
seems to work only for WGS84 coordinates, correct ?

Thirdly, I followed the discussion about browser compatibilty. It works 
fine on IE9 but it doesn't seem to work on IE8. If IE6 and IE7 are slowly 
but surely disappearing, IE8 is there for some time and it would be great 
to assure compatibility with this browser. Backbone is compatible with 
this browser so maybe we could help in making a fix for recline.

Lastly, if no visualisation is available, have you thought about the 
possibility to attach an screenshot of the resource or an image 
illustrating it? When describing a resource of image type, it would be 
quite useful.

Best,
Pascal Romain
@datalocale

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