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Distant Reader, a tool for using & understanding a corpus
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User browse carrel resolve to index.htm? #176

Closed nkmeyers closed 3 years ago

nkmeyers commented 3 years ago

Could/should target of Users' Browse Carrel click action be to render the carrel's index.htm page ?

The options have to have meaning for first time users that do not contradict their notions of what "read", "browse" mean on other systems?

I wonder would "view", "directory" and "download" be better action labels than "browse" "read" "download" at the users' carrels' directory/ list level?

I think here in the UI is where the carrel vernacular breaks down a bit and index.htm isn't a default render me first for the stuff in the directory - the reader webui steps away from notion of how a webserver typically serves output from a http accessible directory?

for example if I select Browse on my wastewater carrel it resolves to https://distantreader.org/p/patrons/nmeyers/Wastewaterjune042021/ could it resolve to https://distantreader.org/p/patrons/nmeyers/Wastewaterjune042021/index.htm ? and a link to view the carrel directory be provided as another option labeled "directory"? image

dbrower commented 3 years ago

"Read" links to the carrel's index.htm page. As far as I know Browse links to the directory view.

I swapped the order of Browse and Read to make something else easier. Should I swap them back?

dbrower commented 3 years ago

I like changing the terminology. "view", "directory", "download" is better. I also get confused what Read and Browse mean

dbrower commented 3 years ago

Or "View", "Files", "Download"? Is 'directory' too technical? not sure.

dbrower commented 3 years ago

I did the latter, feel free to reopen if you prefer something else.