That's pretty cool, but I had to fire up Parallels on my Mac to see it in MSIE.  For those that may not have Windows readily available, this is what it looks like:

http://twitpic.com/45r6sn


Peter

On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> 
> Someone recently on this list was saying something about ways to embed 
> facets in for instance Atom feeds.
> 
> I was reminded of that, because checking out an Atom feed from Google 
> Books Data API, in Internet Explorer... Internet Explorer displays 
> 'facet' type restrictions for it, under a heading "Filter by category".  
> It also displays sort options, apparently somehow the feed is 
> advertising it's sort options too in a way that a client like IE can act 
> upon?
> 
> Haven't looked into the details, but here's an example feed: 
> http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=LCCN07037314
> 
> Look at it in IE for instance.
> 
> So whatever's being done here is apparently already somewhat standard, 
> at least IE recognizes what Google does? I'd encourage SRU or whoever to 
> follow their lead.
> 
> [I agree that simply copying the Solr API for a standard like SRU is not 
> the way to go -- Solr is an application that supports various low-level 
> things that are not appropriate in that level of detail for a standard 
> like SRU or what have you, at least not until they've been shown to be 
> needed.]


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