Someone give me a quick summary of CORS support. I want to make sure that GBrowse exports DAS 1.53 with CORS (is it just the registry metadata, or something new?)
Lincoln On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very cool - I had a look the other day. Was wondering why some > sources could be attached and some can't.... > Best browser experience yet by far I'd say. > > No problems about adding CORS support - for the record I'm very happy to > implement new capabilities testing and other suggestions to the registry > from anyone who cares to drop me a line. Especially if it's going to enhance > and promote the use of the registry :) > > > > On 3 Aug 2010, at 20:41, Thomas Down wrote: > > As some of you already know, I've been experimenting recently with a >> web-based DAS client for genomic data. It's still in >> a unashamedly prototypical state (in particular, some of the popups and >> configuration stuff is outright clunky, and we know it!), but we're >> starting >> to find it quite useful, and would be interested to receive more feedback. >> So if you're curious, you can try it here: >> >> http://www.biodalliance.org/human/ncbi36/ >> >> It's a fully-fledged DAS/1.53 client (with a few bits of DAS/1.6, and >> hopefully rather more coming soon), but has one major caveat: since it's >> pure Javascript code running in your web browser, there are limitations to >> which servers it can connect to. Specifically, it will only work with DAS >> servers that implement the W3C cross-origin resource sharing model (which >> has been discussed on this list before, but drop me a line if you've got >> any >> questions). What does this mean in practice? If you're adding >> datasources >> from the registry, things are simple because Dalliance will only allow you >> to add CORS-enabled sources (a huge thanks to Jonathan Warren for adding >> some support for this in the registry). If you run your own DAS servers >> and >> don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS >> compatibility >> yourself. The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should both be >> okay. >> >> All comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome! >> >> Thomas Down. >> _______________________________________________ >> DAS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das >> > > Jonathan Warren > Senior Developer and DAS coordinator > blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/ > [email protected] > Ext: 2314 > Telephone: 01223 492314 > > > > > > > > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome ResearchLimited, > a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and acompany registered > in England with number 2742969, whose registeredoffice is 215 Euston Road, > London, NW1 2BE._______________________________________________ > > DAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das > -- Lincoln D. Stein Director, Informatics and Biocomputing Platform Ontario Institute for Cancer Research 101 College St., Suite 800 Toronto, ON, Canada M5G0A3 416 673-8514 Assistant: Renata Musa <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ DAS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das
