A responsive, embeddable JavaScript library which displays pages from documents on DocumentCloud (or any other API-compatible location). Follow the development on our example page.
- DocumentCloud's existing document-viewer doesn't play terribly well with mobile devices. It was originally written in 2006, and while it's done a terrific job, it's not well-suited for a mobile-first world.
- There are a number of use cases where it's useful to display only a single page from a document and where the rich metadata of the full document (such as DocumentCloud notes or document title/contributor information) would complement the single pages of supporting material.
- DocumentCloud plans to incrementally build a responsive viewer from smaller constituent components, and a full page with notes is the next step up from our smaller individual note embeds.
- Unenhanced markup (effectively, noscript) is compatible with everything unless being served on an HTTPS page, in which case it requires an SNI-compatible browser (aka anything besides IE on XP).
- Enhanced markup is compatible with IE8+ on Vista+ and all the other usual suspects.
You should open an issue for suggestions or ideas you'd like to tell us about!
- Install Bower and Bundler
- Install JavaScript dependencies with
bower install - Install gem dependencies with
bundle install
We use Guard to watch and build the project, so on the daily you'll want to cd to the repo directory and run bundle exec guard. Outputs will be built to /dist/.
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