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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.] -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/